Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turley was no Sarah,* but there are few cases on record of childbearing at 59. In the 18th Century, Lucas Debes wrote of a Scandinavian woman who supposedly became pregnant at 103. Pliny reported that Cornelia of the family of Serpius bore a son at 60. Probably the oldest case known to scientific record, reported in 1882, is a Scottish woman who gave birth to her 22nd child...
Last week, despite this record, buyers were waiting in line when the Browns once again went on the block. One of them was William DeWitt, 46, who got his start in baseball selling peanuts and soda pop, and worked up in 1936 to general manager of the club. Along with his big brother Charlie, 48, traveling secretary of the Browns for the past twelve years, Bill DeWitt scraped up some money and plunged in where other treading angels had gotten a hotfoot. The DeWitt brothers bought control (58%) of the Browns for about...
...starts to bite, I am free from tension"), gave a strong kick as he reached the takeoff. A few seconds later the crowd let out a roar. His 290-ft. jump was 60.96 feet short of the world mark, but it had set a new U.S. (and North American) record, breaking the old one of 289 feet set by his late countryman, Torger Tokle* at Iron Mountain, Mich, seven years...
Because form as well as distance counts in a ski jump, Record-Smasher Kongsgaard (whose landings were shaky) finished third, after two fellow Norwegians, in the Seattle Ski Club tournament. He took that in stride along with his new record. Said Sverre Kongsgaard: "I made a good jump. It may never happen again...
...record 8,475 fans who jammed Philadelphia Arena last week seemed more keyed up than Mike Mikan. Their hero was 27-year-old ex-Marine Joe Fulks of the Philadelphia Warriors, who was just 19 points behind Mikan for the scoring lead of the Basketball Association of America. Most Arena-goers were rooting for Joe to overtake and pass Mikan, but it was not the night...