Word: mins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio State's track team: three of the six varsity relays (quarter-mile, half-mile, mile) at the 33rd annual Drake Relays, the Midwest's No. 1 track meet; setting a new meet record for the half-mile (1 min., 25.9 sec.); at Des Moines, Iowa. In a special invitation race, Roy Cochran, onetime Indiana University star, now wearing the colors of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, chalked up 52:2 for the 440-yd. -a new world's record...
...placing buoys, checking lights. At the ore docks, 70-ton cars of ore from the fabulous Mesabi range wait for the first ships, the Great Northern Railway men stand by, ready to smash a record made last October-333 ships loaded, at an average time of 2 hr. 35 min. per ship...
Record. In Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Junior Eugene J. Frechette Jr. breathed deeply for three minutes, took three breaths of oxygen, then sat purple-faced, breathless, like-to-bust, for 20 min., 5 sec. When he finally let go, he had broken the known world's record...
Last week, darting like a goldfish through the layout of 40 "gates"-including hair-raising hairpin turns, flushes (S curves) and right-angle elbows-Miss Shaw was clocked in the breath-taking time of i min. 44.4 sec. On the same f-mile slalom course earlier in the day, ten top-flight men skiers had competed in Lake Placid's annual Washington's Birthday ski meet. Only three of them had chalked up better time than Miss Shaw's (winning time...
...Harlem's coffee-colored Ray Robinson; a prize fight with Welterweight Maxie Berger of The Bronx; scoring a technical knockout in 1 min. 43 sec. of the second round; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. For Robinson, "the little Joe Louis," it was the 28th victory in a row since he turned professional a little more than a year ago. His next opponent will probably be Welterweight Champion Red Cochrane...