Word: metrics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Australian swimmer Murray Rose broke his own American and collegiate record for the metric mile as the 1941 NCAA swimming championships opened in Seattle yesterday. Rose, swimming for the University of California, was clocked at 17:31.8, over nine seconds under the mark he set two years...
Bill Chase of Yale, who set a meet record of 17:48.7 to take the winner's slot in last year's metric mile, was second this year at 17:33.0. Gary Heinrich, a University of Cincinnati sophomore, placed third in the same race with 17:44.4. In for fourth was Winston Pendleton of Michigan State with a time...
...Thomas had tied his previous record, the new mark would not have been recognised anyway; a recent international dictum requires record heights to be measured in meters as well as inches. Harvard had no metric tape on hand, and so Thomas was jumping for a U.S., B.U., meet, and cage record only...
...hope it's all wrapped up before the 1,500 meters," Johnson had said. "I never want to settle one in that thing." But the 1960 Olympic gold medal was to be settled in "that thing": the metric mile, despised by all decathlon men because it demands brute endurance just as their last bit of strength is ebbing away...