Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard backstroke and the 300 yard Medley Relay; Bus Curwen in the Medley Relay; John Eusden in the Medley relay and the 50 and 100 yard free styles; Brad Patterson and Shaw McCutcheon in the high board fancy dive; and Dave Barnes and George Christman in the 1500 meter free style...
...Meter Time Trial Finals (all heats...
Gertrude Niesen's $2,000,000 marble palace in Newport (bought for the torch-singer by Mama Niesen for $20,000) was visited by a man from the water department when the meter had run up a $600 bill. He walked in on a 50-room skating rink, on floors buried under half a foot of ice, to see the grand staircase a magnificent frozen waterfall. The pipes had frozen and burst...
...Whipple "expects to witness the birth of highly luminous and massive super-giant stars." Cosmic radio signals, which physicists have traced to the Milky Way, can also be explained by these dust currents, Whippie thinks. As the electrified particles whirl about, they are capable of generating the mighty eleven-meter "static" waves which sometimes interfere with earthly communication...
...Lessons are based on such practical problems as meter reading, map reading, timetable reading, floorplan drawing, computing the cost of a trip, profit & loss, interest, taxes, budgets, insurance...