Word: mins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexander McGilverie: No. 4, Archibald Craige, No. 10, The White Monkeys; No. 15, Agnes Ayres; No. 17, Lambert Deiser; No. 19, Gold Dust Twins; No. 25, Jonathan Herlock; No. 26, Plato and Aristotle; No. 37, Deuces Wild; No. 49, Two Prayers; No. 50, Spyke; No. 61, Andy and Min...
...World's outdoor record for mile: 4 min. 10.4 sec., made by Paavo Nurmi...
...brief space to the very human subject of children. But as usual it had to deliver its findings in the form of statistics. It presented its results in maximums and minimums. Families with fathers 45-49 years old All Living Children Children Max. . . 8.1 6.6 Coal Miners Min. 3.3 3.0 Physicians Dentists, Surgeons Families with fathers 40-44 years old All Living Children Children Max. . 7.0 5.9 Coal Miners Min. 2.8 2.6 Architects Actors Inferences which may be drawn from these statistics : - ¶ That men engaged in coal mining are more prolific than men engaged in other occupations...
...December American Mercury, the unrest became drastic. Prof. Richard Burton, of the University of Min- nesota, took Why Go To College for a text and preached the exclusion from seats of learning, not only of the "cake eater" (see above), but also of that "monument of misapplied energy" and "machinelike assiduity," the dig, grind, poler, swatter, the "young man or woman of mediocre or worse calibre who lacks initiative, personality, creative energy. . . ." Prof. Burton, a man evidently conversant with culture in many forms, was scornful of that form which is "a sort of contagion; you get it by being exposed...
Robert V. Jaros, 18, Illinois University student, brought forth a model monoplane, driven by twisted rubber bands, that broke two world's records by staying in the air 10 min. 14 sec. and covering a mile and a half...