Word: mins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shortest prizefight on record lasted 11 seconds; longest, 7 hr. 19 min...
...Nadadora Lenk and five of South America's flashiest male swimmers will compete in eleven U.S. meets, will show U.S. rivals what to expect when, and if the Pan-American Games are held at Buenos Aires beginning next November. Miss Lenk has swum 200 meters in 2 min. 56 sec., 400 meters in 6 min. 15.8 sec. Best breaststroke time chalked up by a U.S. girl: 3:14.8 for 200 meters, 6:44.6 for 400 meters...
...fleet of twelve specially built trucks, each carrying a 30-ft. section of bridge, rolled up to the edge of the swift-running Chattahoochee River, unlimbered their derricks. Men with air compressors inflated the rubber floats, others laid down the steel treadways. In 2 hr. 6 min. the treadways were cleared, an armored column started across. Best time for the old bridge at the same spot...
...attitude and Boy-Scout living habits, he has run within two seconds of every world's record for half a dozen distances, from 440 yards to 1,500 meters. At a mile, he has already tied Glenn Cunningham's recognized indoor world's record of 4 min...
...Hollywood studio announced that the kissing record set by George Brent and Ann Sheridan (56.2 seconds) had finally been broken by Regis Toomey and Jane Wyman (3 min. 5 sec.). A citizens' committee of Lilypons, Md., appointed Lily Pons honorary Mayor. (The town was named in honor of the opera singer nine years ago.) "I'm never going to get behind that phony mustache again," declared Julius ("Groucho") Marx. "The mustache is out for good." The New York Times published an editorial in protest...