Word: mile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain Graham Taylor of the Crimson skiers was as usual the mainstay of the team, and copped second place in the individual competition. Taylor scored the only first for the Crimson when he beat out MIT's Andy Wessel in the tough six mile cross-country...
...request for a 3,000-mile range was proof that the missile men had some hope of solving problems that were regarded a few years ago as Buck Rogerish dreams. A guided missile is no mere pilotless bomber shepherded by a nearby mother plane. According to M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl T. Compton, new chairman of the Research and Development Board, a missile must fly near its target unaccompanied and have some sort of "seeing eye" to recognize the target and steer toward it. Admittedly, this is a large order...
...neck when he runs. On St. Valentine's Day at Hialeah Park last week, the Goose flew as he had never flown before. Flashing by the seven-furlong marker in 1:21 1/5 (world-record time), Coaltown was ten lengths in front and still pulling away. At the mile, stop watches caught him in 1:34 1/5 (a shade faster than Equipoise's world record set at Arlington Park...
Coaltown kept going, his jockey sitting as motionless in the saddle as a park policeman. At the finish of the mile-and-an-eighth race, the handsome bay stallion had equaled another world record-the 1:47 3/5 that Indian Broom hung up at Tanforan in 1936. Jockey Eldon Nelson dismounted, stared at the fractional times posted on the odds board and exclaimed: "Gosh almighty...
...Crimson took five out of nine first places, taking the 200-yard freestyle, the 100-yard freestyle, the 200-yard breast stroke, the quarter-mile freestyle (Ted Norris again), and the final relay. Jerry German, Bob Berke, Shep Brown, and Joe Fox were responsible for victory in that crucial race...