Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Albert Abraham Michelson, in his final experiments, reflected light back & forth ten times in a mile-long vacuum tube from the faces of a rapidly spinning, 3 2-sided mirror. Velocity measurements completed by his successors after Michelson's death yielded an average figure of 186,270.75 miles per second. But in individual runs there were unexplained, periodic variations up to twelve miles a second. At first this caused excitement over possibility that the speed of light might not be constant (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933). The clamor was quieted by attributing the variations to "experimental error...
...much faster Dartmouth's track was than those in other sports arenas, he invited the great Glenn Cunningham to race over it. No official world record could be hung up, because the International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes only outdoor performances. Cunningham amazed everybody with a 4:04.4 mile, the fastest ever run by man, two seconds under British Sydney Charles Wooderson's world record. Unsure of the track, Cunningham ran his second quarter in a slow 64 seconds; later he figured he could have run the distance safely two seconds faster...
...flash of the season, Negro Portrait Painter & Student John Borican of Columbia University, who week before had jumped the gun to beat Glenn Cunningham in Manhattan in the fastest 1,000 yards ever run, went to Dartmouth to see how fast he could run 800 meters and the half-mile (880 yards). Spaced out to pace him were four Dartmouth runners with handicaps of from 10 to 95 yards. Careful was Borican this time to be off with the gun and not before. He turned off the quarter in a sweet 52.4, overhauled the pacers one by one, raced...
This time clipped 1.6 seconds off the great Lloyd Hahn's indoor half-mile record of 1 :51.4 set in 1928, but Borican was dissatisfied. Said he: "I think I could have taken two seconds off my time tonight if I had . . . someone in front of me on the last...
This week, before they returned to Stephens from their 4,500-mile, fortnight's junket, half the girls went to Texas for some unfinished business: a date with Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. The boys of Texas A. & M. were to call for them in Army trucks...