Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about a possible funeral. ''You be quiet!" she snapped, blue eyes blazing. Tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Miss Ingalls next became angry over an airport ruling that she had to use an unfamiliar runway. Finally she took off, headed west, reached Burbank in 18 hr. 19½ min...
...Exhausted, Mr. President!" chorused the perspiring newshawks. The President droned on & on & on. Not until the 35-min. conference was almost over did he end his filibuster, neatly parry a utilities question with a line of verse...
...Burly, bone-crunching Danno O'Mahoney: a wrestling bout with Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf") ; in 28 min. 28 sec.; in Manhattan. Champion O'Mahoney rocked the Navajo Indian in a cradle roll, hurled him to the mat with an Irish whip, polished off the bout with a boa-constrictor body hold...
...Mahoney and 30,000 Bostonians who crowded Fenway Park to watch it. An agreement between the wrestlers stated that if the bout, originally billed as two out of three falls, lasted more than an hour, the first to gain a fall would be the winner. After one hour, 15 min. and 16 sec. of groveling, grunting, groaning and grimacing, Londos applied the "flying mare" with which he usually ends his bouts. Instead of tottering into a collapse, Danno O'Mahoney retaliated with his own specialty, the "Irish Whip," and a flying mare of his own; banged Londos...
...lifetime spent trying to improve and rearrange the purposes of other pastimes and occupations. He began by using a golf ball & driver to knock over bowling pins. He once bowled 228 balls in an hour. He won a wager by playing 18 holes of golf in 40 min., 45 sec., after wearing out three caddies, five scorers. He played 154 holes of golf in a day, stopped lest younger members of his club find his example an encouragement to overexertion. During an influenza epidemic. Dr. Code made 1,600 calls in 36 days. Having invented Codeball-on-the-Green...