Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meter dive: Won by G. Dana (H) 97.6 points; second, McNamara (B) 89.3; third, C. Sagenkahn...
High & dry on three floors of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace were 115 motorboats, 35 sailboats, skiffs, prize-winning racers, gadgets, motors, motor fuels. Outstanding gadget: The Hazard Tension Meter, a mandolin-style sound box tunable to a pitch pipe, to attach to yacht rigging for determining desired tautness. Based on a complicated device used for years on America's Cup Defenders, the popular Hazard comes to merer skippers at $25. Outstanding motor yacht: a 57-foot, superluxurious, poly-gadgeted Elco cruiser with clipper bow, flying bridge, streamlined superstructure, berthing a party of six, crew of two. Price...
Dyer is favored to take the dive against George Dana and Chet Sagenkahn, and he should be better still if he's learned the trick of highboard diving in only eight and one-half feet of water. There have been reports that a one-meter contest might be more sensible--it was used two years ago, but the highboard has been designated...
...thyroxin produced by the thyroid gland. Thus, hyperthyroids would absorb sugars at a higher rate of speed than diabetics. Last week, he reported a simple new sugar-timing test which he has used successfully on 250 patients. For this long-awaited achievement, he was promptly awarded the Van Meter Prize of $300 by the American Association for the Study of Goiter...