Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Entered in the Giant Slalom to be held Saturday morning are Allan C. Butler, V-12; Gorald Y. Genn '48; Lawrence L. Griffin '48; and Thomas P. Grimley, NROTC. Saturday afternoon Alexander P. Coburn '48; Howard C. Nutting, V-12; Genn; and Griffin will take part in the 40 meter jump...
...some point lost in the mists of metropolitan folklore, Parisians began to use André as a flood meter. When the Seine is low his feet are high above the water level, but, as the river rises, it covers him bit by bit. When his feet get wet, it is bad. When his knees get wet. it is serious. When his thighs get wet, it is dangerous. When his belt gets wet, Paris begins to be flooded. In 1910 André was nearly drowned: the water was up to his neck...
...newest translation of the Iliad stands among the best ever made. It is the only one ever carried through in an English equivalent of the Greek epic meter...
...This meter, rarely used in English, the translators have maintained through 15,693 lines, and have made it clear, resonant and readable. Poets only by avocation, they have not matched the ease and music of the Greek; but great poets have failed at this. They have used old-fashioned forms of language, considering such forms necessary to suggest Homer's ancientness, and in order to get extra syllables in the long lines. Their few attempts at modernity are incongruous...
...Curtis did more than was expected of her last week at Kansas City. Unbeatable in middle-distance swims, the 18-year-old San Franciscan won, as expected, the Women's National A.A.U. 400-meter, 800-meter and 1,500-meterfree-style championships. But she also defeated National Champion Brenda Helser of Portland, Ore. in the 100-meter sprint. Already it was being said that Ann Curtis, first U.S. girl to break a world record in 15 years (she has broken both the 880-yd. and 800-meter free style), is the greatest freestyler ever developed in the U.S.-perhaps...