Word: mins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true solar year are 365 days, 5 hr. 48 min., 46 sec. This is 26 seconds less than in the calendar year.* In 3,323 years the accumulated error will mount to a full day, thereby vastly confuse astronomical and historical records...
...Each copy weighed 1 lb., 14 oz. Its 272 pages, containing 275,000 words of editorial matter, comprised 295-1/6 sq. ft., enough to paper the ceiling of a room 24½ ft. x 12 ft. An average reader (225 words per minute) would take 20 hr., 20 min., to peruse it. Sixty 45-ton presses, working night & day shifts, printed it in three weeks. A total of 214 national advertisers appeared in it, 63 in color. At an average of $9,000 per page, the advertising revenue was approximately $1,512,000. The issue consumed 3,000 tons...
Sued for Divorce. John Henry Mears, globe-circler whose record (23 days, 15 hr., 21 min., established in 1928) was only surpassed by the Graf Zeppelin's flight; by Mrs. Marian Mears at Oakland, Calif. Grounds: non-support...
Northeastern, in second place, had a well balanced team. R. E. Jellison, a member of the Boston harriers, was the individual winner of the race, covering the distance in the good time of 23 min., 50 sec., 11 seconds later, his teammate, B. B. Sheridan, scampered across the final line in third position. A. H. Elliott placed twelfth. R. Greenleaf fifteenth, and G. H. Bradford seventeenth, making the team's total of 48 points...
Holy Cross was in third place, scoring 101 points. W. Brennan, star of the Purple team, placed second in the race, in the very good time of 23 min., 57 sec failure to gain a lower group score. The poorer showing of the rest of the team was responsible for Holy Cross...