Word: mile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps you will recall some recent TIME stories about Texas: the opening of Oilman Glenn McCarthy's $21 million Shamrock hotel in Houston; the successful financing of a 1,825-mile pipeline to pump gas from the Rio Grande to Manhattan; and a sketch of Oscar Holcombe, nine times mayor of Houston, where downtown property sells for $2,000 a front inch...
...party in power, the Liberals had been able to fix the election date to suit themselves. Early last week, back from a 6,000-mile political swing through Western Canada, Louis St. Laurent had called his cabinet into session. "Well, gentlemen," he said, "I think we should have an early election. Does everyone agree?" Everyone did. The cabinet settled on the earliest possible date: June 27. In the House of Commons that night, Louis St. Laurent made his early election call, announced the dissolution of Parliament for week...
...shells will start as usual at the Charles Street (subway) Bridge and stroke a mile and three quarters to the MIT boat house near the Cottage Farm Bridge. The additional distance on the Charles River course may prove an advantage to both Tech and the Crimson...
Runners in the middle distances and the mile, the freshmen's strongest events, will find plenty of competition with two Dartmouth boys, one who runs a 1:58 half, and another who runs a 4:35 mile...
Dartmouth's Captain Jim Burnham is favored to win the hammer throw, and Stan Waterman should have little trouble taking the two mile. The varsity hopes to counter with Pat McCormick in the hurdles, Geoff Tootell in the shot and discus, and Spivak and Thayer...