Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woods] you must find out exactly how far you stride. When I was in France, my stride was exactly one meter. I even checked the maps by my stride...
...METER Judsonia...
Shorn of the Russians, the meet went on, with newsreel cameras grinding from what once was Hitler's private box. The best performance was a 6 ft. 4 3/10 in. high jump by Sergeant Pete Watkins, ex-Texas A & M, who also won the no-meter high hurdles in 15.3 sec. The score: U.S. 94, Britain 43, France...
...young "Wullie" Service went to work in a bank and began writing verses during office hours. Even then his attitude toward his craft was that of an artisan. His favorite technique was to plot the meter, write down the rhyming words at the end of each line, last of all fill in the lines behind them. In one of his early poems "there was a couplet I liked" : Love's exultant roundelay Issues in a wail of pain...
...meter had been kept on the number of words ... I think it would have been like this: British 6, Americans 2, Russians 1. Churchill is a garrulous old gentleman and he would never say anything in less than 20 words where ten would...