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Word: mins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wing area, 8 in. length. One after another 20 "babies" took off from the floor, made wide spirals toward the arched ceiling, propellers flailing the air. One after another fluttered floorward, rubber motors slack, to land on paper-thin balsa-wood wheels, until at the end of 7½ min. only one was still in the air for a new world record in its class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Little Ships | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

Planes in the fuselage class are larger than R. O. G.'s but not scale models of full-sized airplanes. They have no landing gear, are launched from the hand. Winner was John Zaic, 18, of Manhattan, with a flight of 6 min. 57 sec. Goldberg finished fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Little Ships | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...harped bitterly on this handicap as he pleaded his own defense. Then a lawyer named Calizte Cormier pleaded that Publisher Harpell had done great services to insurance companies, that Sun Life had increased its bond holdings since he began his attacks. Last week at Montreal a jury took 100 min. to reach a decision: guilty with a plea for leniency. Publisher Harpell faced maximum imprisonment of two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sun Flayer | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...correct answers: The ant won the race in 11 hr. 20 min. The fly's time was 12 hr. 1 min. 16 sec. The fly ran 270 meters. The ant circled the track 382 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ant v. Housefly | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...yard free style swim--Won by R. G. Dorr '36; second, Timothy Fuller '36; third, Chapper (T). Time--1 min...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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