Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heaved the discus 168 ft. 8½ in., an Olympic record. Minutes later, Czechoslovakia's loose-jointed Emil Zatopek, who runs as if fighting off a seizure of St. Vitus' dance, dashed through the tape to win the 10,000-meter run final in 29 min. 17 sec., smashing his own 1948 Olympic record...
Shortly after 5 the next morning, her deep-voiced siren burst into a jubilant roar; she was off Bishop Rock, 2,982 miles from Ambrose Lightship, after a crossing of only 3 days 10 hr. 40 min. She had averaged 35.59 knots, had knocked 10 hr. 2 min. off the old mark. The Queen Mary's skipper, outward bound, sent her a sportsmanlike message: "Godspeed. Welcome to the Atlantic. Am sacking my chief engineer." Said the new ship's beaming skipper, Commodore Harry Manning: "I've still got more speed up my sleeve- we were just cruising...
...finish, Jimmy McLane had swum the fastest 400 meters of his life. But Moore was faster. With McLane nine feet behind him, Wayne had covered the distance in 4 min. 36.2 sec., nearly five seconds under the Olympic record. Only three swimmers have ever beaten Wayne's time: Japan's Hironoshin Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Ohio's Konno, who surprised most tryout watchers last week by having to thrash desperately to squeeze out his third place and Olympic berth behind Moore and McLane...
...University of Iowa senior Bowen Stass-forth, who clipped more than three seconds off the Olympic 200-meter breaststroke mark to finish in 2 min...
...Ohio State's Yoshi Oyakawa, 18, who won first place in the 100-meter backstroke in 1 min. 5.7 sec., two-tenths of a second faster than the Olympic mark set in 1936 by the U.S.'s Adolph Kiefer...