Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slow-Up. In Tulsa, Okla., police, weary of autoists parking "just one minute overtime" In parking-meter zones, adjusted the meters so that they would clock a 63-minute hour...
Died. Dr. Frederick N. Bonine, 77, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) athlete who in 1885 did the 100-meter dash in 10.8 seconds-a record that stood for 15 years until broken by F. W. Jarvis; in Niles, Mich. A popular cut-rate eye specialist in Niles, he made no appointments, charged $2 for the first visit, $1 thereafter, took his patients from a queue that usually extended half a city block from his drab little office above a drugstore. He once estimated that in 38 years he had treated 1,500,000 cases...
...roll call began; 45 minutes of grinding suspense as the clerk growled out the 432 names, listened for an answer, repeated the vote. The jammed galleries seemed hung over the rails. The little tally meter of Tally Clerk Hans Jorgensen registered 204 aye votes, 201 nay votes. (Twenty-seven were not voting.) Hubbub boiled about the rostrum...
Last week Brother Kiyoshi chalked up another double: the 800-meter and 1,500-meter championships (all events have been changed to metric distances this year). But this year he had more than his kid brother to contend with. In the 400-meter free-style his title was copped by up-&-coming, 17-year-old Bill Smith Jr., a kinky-red-haired fellow Hawaiian (part English), who a few months ago broke the world's records for 200, 300 and 400 meters. Teammate Smith, nicknamed Malolo (flying fish) by his native playmates because he has no Hawaiian name, also...
...Jaretz could not even keep his 100-meter title from the flying Hawaiians. Takashi Hirose took that. And Jose Balmores, another Islander, took the breaststroke and medley championships. When the final points were tallied, Coach Sakamoto's boys had won the U.S. team title for the third year in a row-with 71 points to 21 for the second-place Chicago Towers Club...