Word: mile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1929, the twelve cars that were running at the finish of Indianapolis' famed 500-mile Memorial Day race were powered by eight-cylinder engines. But the engineering specialists who design racing autos reasoned that with fewer moving parts, fewer things could go wrong with an engine. Last week, the twelve cars that finished the furious grind at Indianapolis-at speeds up to a record-breaking 121 m.p.h.-were all four-cylinder jobs...
...varsity crew took its first time trial over the four mile New London race course Saturday, turning in a time of 20 minutes and 13 seconds--11 seconds over the upstream record. The Yale varsity, which has already been at Gale's Ferry for over a week, made its preliminary run on Thursday and was clocked at 20 minutes and 40 seconds by Coach Skip Walz...
Jaakko reserves his special praise for Bannister. "Why, that mile here between Bannister and George Wade of Yale will be one of the best of the whole intercollegiate season," he predicted yesterday. "Wade is the kind of a runner who needs to be pushed, and I think both of them will go under 4:10, so you can see what a race it should...
...place is fairly unlikely. Freshman Bill Geick (broad jump), Charlie Durakis (high hurdles), and Dick Weiskopf (100), and varsity sprinter Harvey Thayer (220) are all number three in their events on the form chart, and John Cogan, the Crimson's other varsity representative, is number four in the two mile...
Fuchs put the 16-pound shot 56 feet, 11 1/2 inches last week in the New York Met meet. Michigan's world record-holder Chuck Fonville is the only athlete who has bettered that distance. Appel has vaulted 14 feet, Wade has run a 4:13 mile, and the freshman Hipple twins, who high jump in their bare feet, generally get up around 6 feet, 2 inches...