Word: nurmi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the members of the team are Paavo Nurmi; Matti Jarvinen, holder of the world record for the javelin throw; and Achilles Jarvinen, Matti's brother, winner of the decathlon in the last Olympics...
...photographs revealed that the heart of Paavo Nurmi, Finnish distance runner, is three times normal size- which, in an ordinary person, would indicate grave disease. The Nurmi heart requires so much room to work in that it makes a quarter turn each time the diaphragm pushes up in respiration...
...Jules Ladoumegue, French middle distance runner: a world's record by running a mile in 4 min. 9 1/2 sec.-1 1/8 sec. faster than the record made by Paavo Nurmi in 1923 ; at Paris...
...Paavo Nurmi: a two-mile race at Helsingfors, Finland; in 8 min., 59 3/5 sec., a world's record (Nurmi's twelfth...
Died. Aarvi Nurmi, 26, U. S. census worker, cousin of famed Runner Paavo Nurmi of Finland; found shot through the head near his home in Takoma Park, Md. Died...