Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idlewild Airport, controlmen expertly ticked off the routine comings and goings of scores of aircraft. Shortly after 12:30 a.m., the routine broke: an LAV (for Linea Aeropostal Venezolana) Super Constellation, droning southward from Idlewild across the black Atlantic toward Caracas, was in trouble. Her position: 38° 10 min. north, 72° 08 min. west (160 miles southeast of the New Jersey coast). "Returning direct to New York," said the crisp message. "Unable to maintain 10,000 ft." The trouble was spelled out: the Constellation's left inboard engine was out of control, could conceivably shake the engine...
...Patron. Few campuses anywhere in the world have traveled more resolutely towards their goal over a more precarious road. Ewha was at first such a suspect place that its pupils went about in veils to conceal their identity. But the school did have one powerful patron-patriotic Queen Min, who in 1895 was to meet death in her own palace at the hands of Japanese infiltrators. By 1910, when Japan finally annexed Korea, the idea of education for women was so well established that Ewha began adding college courses...
...also had a figure for the distance between Syene and Alexandria: 5,000 stadia. Only one observation was necessary. During a summer solstice, he measured the shadow cast by a vertical pillar in Alexandria. It turned out to be one-fiftieth of a full circle (about 7° 12 min...
...finish line two blocks away. Mayor John B. Hynes clapped the laurel wreath on his head and adoring Finnish-Americans enshrouded him in a blanket. Unsure of Viskari's English, an admirer shouted: "Record! Record! Understand?" Viskari grinned as well as he could. His time: 2 hr. 14 min. 14 sec., fastest marathon ever run. Kelley, 125 yards back at the finish, crossed 19 seconds later, also breaking the old record...
...rain-dampened track at Melbourne's Olympic stadium, World Champion Miler John Landy figured to run his favorite distance in no better than 4:04. But as he breezed past the three-quarter-mile mark he heard his time announced as 3 min. flat. He decided to turn it on, finished the final quarter in a blazing 58.6 sec. to break the 4-min. barrier for the fourth time in five races. The 3:58.6 time is 0.6 sec. off Landy's world record...