Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be the purchase of 80 new high-speed bombers to be delivered in 1935. With contracts to be let by competitive bidding. Army officials expect the new bombers will have a top speed of 250 m.p.h., cruising speed of 220 m.p.h., ability to climb 2 mi. in 5 min...
...agencies with a new scheme. It had developed equipment far surpassing any in existence. The fruit of ten years' work by the Bell Laboratories, the equipment was built on a new principle.* It could send 11 sq. in. of picture per minute, half a newspaper page in 17 min. The result was so nearly perfect that a layman could hardly distinguish between original print and telephoto. But A. T. & T. would not consider re-entering the precarious picture business by itself. Rather, it wanted one or more of the picture agencies to take the project over, leasing...
...yard run--Won by Walter DuB. Brookings '37; second. Cleaveland Floyd, Jr. '37; third. Fox (A). Time--2 min...
Mile ran--Won by Horne (A); second. Eugene H. Walker '37; third, Robert D. Woodward '37. Time--4 min...
...began to sprint between the crowds roped off along the sidewalks. He was alone running down Commonwealth Avenue. He turned into Exeter Street as lightly as though he were trotting to catch a street car, whisked across the finish where he was timed at 2 hr., 32 min., 53 sec. He was sitting down to a plate of beef stew in the Boston A. A. clubhouse when the other runners arrived...