Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three heats of four men were run off, two men from each qualifying. The winning time for the first heat was 5 min. I sec., for the second 4 min.55 sec., for the third 4 min...
About the Hindenburg's trip there was nothing scientifically notable except that it inaugurated the first regular North Atlantic air service, made a record dirigible crossing (61 hr., 38 min.). Half a dozen special newspaper correspondents aboard, however, recorded reams of trivial happenings. Most of the 51 passengers admitted they had difficulty remembering they were in the air, so steady was the motion, so familiar were the accommodations to steamship travelers. Dr. Hugo Eckener had shouted: "Auf, Schiff!" at Friedrichshafen at 9 p.m. An hour later practically all passengers had tired of peering at the lights of Germany, adjourned...
...glanced at the 40-odd members present, announced counts of 108, 102, 117.* Three perfecting amendments offered by Democratic Ways & Means Committeemen were swiftly adopted, two by the Republican opposition were just as swiftly voted down. Total time for reading and amending the 236-page bill: 2 hr. 46 min. Next day 359 bewildered Representatives appeared to vote, passed the bill by a thumping...
...year's best British aviator, the League's members in 22 countries voted for Henry F. Broadbent, who flew from England to Australia in 6 days, 21 hr. 19 min., lowering the record set by the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, whose round-Australia time he also bettered...
...which disaster strolls implacably through a conventional ballet, will make it impossible for many people ever again to take the serious Dance seriously. Thereupon, Messrs. Abbott, Rodgers & Hart, uncannily abetted by famed Choreographer George Balanchine, perform an even more impressive theatrical miracle by staging a 15-min. ballet of their own, "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue." which would probably evoke an ovation from modernists anywhere outside On Your Toes. Miracle No. 3, which tops the evening, occurs when Abbott et al. bring the whole performance back into the musical comedy theatre with an exciting, side-splitting and thoroughly surprising finale...