Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus spurred, the Conference swiftly appointed a steering bureau which met at once, decided to limit delegates' speeches to 15 min. each, adopted a program of daily conference work from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. with 90 min. out for lunch...
...subscriptions of $15,000. Tiled in colors, 50 by 15 ft., it stands in the west wing connecting the executive offices with the main building. In accepting it, President Roosevelt revealed that he had once tried to build a similar pool but it caved in. He took a 30-min. swim before dinner - his first exercise since entering the White House...
...steadily around the track and no more accidents happened, the crowd wandered about the grounds picking four-leaf clovers, swigging bottled beer, munching hamburger sandwiches. His lead never seriously threatened, Meyer coasted the last 25 mi. to save gas and play safe, crossed the line in 4 hr. 48 min. The spectators reassembled to cheer him, almost crushed him when they crowded around his car. Meyer kissed his wife, vowed he was going to quit racing and go back to California. Six minutes later, Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis sputtered across the line for second place, and after him Lou Moore...
...Jimmy ("Babyface") McLarnin, hammer-fisted Vancouver fighter: the world's welterweight championship; by knocking out Champion Young Corbett III in 2 min. 30 sec.; in Los Angeles. ¶ The New York Yankees: a ballgame against Philadelphia, 17 to 11, with three runs in the second inning, one in the third, ten in the fifth, and three in the eighth when Babe Ruth clouted his tenth homer of the season with two men on base; in Manhattan. The Athletics scored all their runs in one inning, the third. Yankee Pitcher Walter Brown fanned 12 men in six and one-third...
...Groton crew, stroked and captained by Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.: a race against Belmont Hill School by 2½ lengths, in 5 min. 25 sec., fastest time for a mile made by any Groton crew in ten years; at Groton, Mass. Capt. Roosevelt's mother was in the launch that followed the race, with her son John (assistant manager of the 1932 Groton football team) and a distant cousin Cornelius Roosevelt, who manages the crew...