Word: mins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metre Run. Won by Douglas G. Lowe of Great Britain, 1 min., 4/5 sec. Seraphin Martin of France, holder of the world's record, finished second. Lloyd Hahn, U. S. hope, was fifth...
...Metre Run. Won by Harry Larva of Finland, 3 min, 53 1/5sec...
...Sixteen-Pound Shot Put. Won by John Kuck of the U. S., 52 ft., 11/16 in., new world's record. Running High Jump. Won by Robert W. King of the U. S., 6 ft., 4⅜ in. Ten-Thousand-Metre Run. Won by Paavo Nurmi of Finland, 30 min., 18½ sec. Willie Ritola of Finland finished a scant yard behind Nurmi. One-Hundred-Metre Dash. Won by Percy Williams of Canada, 10½ sec. Frank Wykoff, California schoolboy favorite, finished fourth. Sixteen-Pound Hammer Throw. Won by Patrick O'Callaghan of Ireland...
...exact moment when their essence may be impounded into creams, powders, lipsticks. Less aesthetic visitors could feast their eyes on tubs of cucumbers, great bunches of parsley leaves. Madame Rubinstein is justly proud of her products, noted for their active qualities, making the skin tingle. At her shop, min-istrants to beauty smile when a newcomer tries an application. "Timid women," they 'remark, "are-terrified...
...first trans-Atlantic race since 1905 when the Atlantic, skippered by Capt. Charles Barr, won the Kaiser's Cup by crossing from Sandy Hook to England in 12 days, 4 hrs. 1 min., 19 sec. This year, this same Atlantic, repainted many times and retrimmed, has as skipper the direct descendant of two U. S. Presidents - Charles Francis Adams, 62, brother of the late historian Henry Adams. Skipper Adams, yachtsmen agree, is the canniest amateur salt alive. He sailed the Resolute in the last defense of the America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock...