Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time this year President Hoover & friends motored to the Rapidan camp for the weekend. Gone were the effects of last Autumn's Drought. The President caught the limit of 20 trout. Driving back to Washington his motor was stalled for 40 min. in a Sunday traffic jam over the Potomac bridge. Motorists greeted him with amused cheers and applause. When an old Ford, with an old Negro in it and a potato plugging the gas tank, stalled beside the way, the President smiled...
...abreast, but at the bridge MacRae Sykes, sharp-faced stroke, put the beat up. In a few strokes open water showed at the Columbia stern and Navy could not close it even in the last few hundred yards with the traditional Navy sprint. Columbia's time was 6 min. 4½ sec., Navy's 6 min. 11 sec.-about a length and one-third...
...sight-seeing tour of Rome, New Jersey's Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow spent 20 min. with Premier Benito Mussolini. Conversation: "Personal...
...latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe in 12 min...
...were rowing 37 when suddenly, with a smooth rush of power, Washington raised their stroke to 38, moved away. Going under the bridge they had almost a length; coming through on the other side water showed clear between the shells. Washington's time was a new record, 14 min-53¾ sec. for three miles on the estuary. The Washington junior varsity and freshmen crews also won, also set new records for their distances...