Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio Amateurs should receive recognition for another reason. . . . The Amateurs are almost entirely responsible for developing the radio spectrum, especially the ten-meter band on down to one and one-half meters. These frequencies are used for Walkie-Talkies and most portable transmitter-receivers used...
...last year at Cambridge University, as midnight tolled, he sprinted around the "Great Court" of Trinity College (374⅔ yds.) before Trinity's clock finished chiming the hour. Next year at Amsterdam he won the Olympic 400-meter hurdles. Prewar voyagers on the Queen Mary could view a brass plate on the promenade deck recording Lord Burghley's dash around the quarter-mile deck in full evening dress-time: 58 sec. In 1931 he stood as a Conservative, was elected to the House of Commons. In 1932 he went to Los Angeles as captain of the British Olympic...
...home and then take a warm-up jog through 40,000 acres without leaving his own domain. Yet he is the most democratic member of [his] village-keen, alert, gracious and always ready with a quick smile and unlimited courtesy." This time he finished fourth in the 400-meter hurdles...
...terseende (Auf Wiedersehen) for Gunder, who has come to like the U.S. (especially malted milk, cowboy clothes and baseball). He had broken three records: world's official two-mile (best time, his own unofficial 8:47.8, set in Sweden last summer), the U.S. 1,500-meter (3:47.8) and U.S. outdoor mile (4:05.3). He began packing to go back to Sweden. There in his absence another runner, his friend, hulking Arne Andersson, had smashed Gunder's mile record with a mark...
Dodda came up from his position here to finish eight yards behind Haegg and run the fastest mile over run by an American, 4:06.5. Hulse feel back to third in the final reckoning, but he stayed at Haegg's shoulder until the final turn. The NYU 800 meter champion turned in the third fastest mile run by an American as he wearily tailed Dodda by four yards...