Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meter run, by Hagg, beating Andersson's mark of 3:45 set last year. Running a close second, Andersson also shattered his previous record by a full second...
...Politician. In Nicaraguan politics Tacho was a natural from the start. After a lean youth which included a spell of meter-reading, residence in the U.S., and marriage into Nicaragua's potent Debayle family, Tacho entered public life via civil war. In the troubles of 1926-27, notable for the intervention of U.S. Marines...
John Llewellyn Lewis drove to the Alexandria, Va. city hall to pay his taxes like a good citizen, but got stung with a $2 fine; he had failed to put 5? in the parking meter outside...
...Solons of the National Amateur Athletic Union solemnly decided last week that Claude ("Buddy") Young, famed University of llinois sprinter, could not call himself the 1944 A.A.U. 100-meter champion-even though he had won the race in a handy 10.5 seconds. Reason: Young and the five other Negroes in the 100-meter final were all disqualified for jumping the gun twice in the course of five false starts. The race was finally run as an exhibition just to please the crowd...
...what a headache that first issue was! The machine to fold the Ponies to fit in a letter envelope was delayed at sea and arrived 36 hours late, so all the copies had to be folded by hand. Our postage meter didn't show up in time either-so all the envelopes likewise had to be sealed and stamped by hand...