Word: paavo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...ever made around a curved track, in a great finish against Ralph Metcalfe of Chicago. The new decathlon champion was Jess Mortensen. Against the most imposing field in U. S. track-meet history he scored 8,177.463 points, passing the recognized world's record of 8.053.290, made by Paavo Yrjola in the 1928 Olympics. Berlinger was fifth, Indian Charles second. Los Angeles A. C. won the team championship with 43 points. New York A. C. was second...
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...