Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Score--Harvard '7, Yale 0. Touchdown--Wadsworth, Point after touchdown--Dearborn to Cheever (pass). Time--10 min. quarters...
...submarine V5, one of the two largest in the world, put out from Portsmouth Navy Yard for her first official depth trials. Aboard her were 95 officers and men. While the mine sweeper Falcon stood by, down went the V-5 off Boone Island, Maine, stayed 45 min., came up perfectly. Her instruments recorded a submersion of 332 ft., breaking the U. S. Navy's record (held by the V4) by 32 ft.* World's record for submarine dives is 400 ft., held by the British submarine Ammiraglio dei Geneys...
...total solar eclipses they have witnessed as railroad conductors are of the gold service stripes on their sleeves. Dr. Samuel Alfred Mitchell, director of the Leander McCormick Observatory, University of Virginia, who has been looking at the skies for 32 years, has the great totality total of 15 min. (six eclipses) to his credit. He has had to travel 90,000 mi. to do it. Had he attended every instance of the sun's darkening since 1900 he would have a grand total of 68.1 min. and might have traveled as far as the eclipse-causing moon...
...Seventh annual National Corn Husking Contest; at Norton, Kans. Corn-husking record (1925): 35.8 bu. in 80 min...
...races yesterday afternoon, the best scores ever registered by Harvard cross country teams against Yale were made. Both Harvard teams succeeded in keeping together well. Poor running conditions were responsible for the unusually slow times: 33 min., 35 sec. for the University race, and 18 min., 32 sec. for the much shorter Freshman contest. The length of the University course is about 6 miles...