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Word: meters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barney Ewell, the Penn State Sophomore, and a Negro, is potentially one of the fastest dash men since the legendary Jesse Owens. The national 200-meter champion and holder of the World's Indoor Record for the 50-yard dash, Barney Ewell will be favored to win the 100 and 220-yard dashes and the broad jump next weekend. The lithe Negro already has run 9.6 for the 100, 20.8 for the 220-yard dash, and has broad jumped over 24 feet. With fast fields against him in both dashes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. of C., Penn State, Pitt Clash on IC4A Track at Stadium Friday; Lightbody Crimson Hope | 5/28/1940 | See Source »

Among his audience there was no President, but, in a box near home plate, were three spectators young Feller was just as anxious to please: his parents and his kid sister Marguerite, who had gone to Chicago from their farm in Van Meter, Iowa. Ma Feller in years gone by had often "cried her eyes out" because little Bob and his father used to spend so much time behind the barn playing ball. Last week, when the last White Sox batter had been put out, Ma Feller was in tears again, but for a different reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spring Posers | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Kalopothakes '88 has translated a number of English hymns into modern Greek, preserving the original meter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT and RUMOUR | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

Captain Eric Cutler again had to be content with a second behind Yale's Rene Chouteau in a 4:53.2 quarter, another exceedingly fast race, to add to his second to Eli Howie Johnson in the 220. George Dana came through with a third in the three meter dive, and the Harvard relay foursome of Fraunic Powers, Lonnte Stowell, Cutler, and Jim Curwen took a third in the 400-yard event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE SWIMMERS STAR AT INTERCOLLEGIATES | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Meter Dive: won by McCutcheon (H); second, Hart (Y); third Hitchcock (Y). 86.5 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Swamps Ulenmen 55-20, As Cutler Stars for Crimson | 3/13/1940 | See Source »

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