Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Y. Woodruff, neither of whom had won an I. C. 4-A title. When fleet little Ben Johnson not only whizzed home first in .the 100-yd. dash and won the broad jump, but also reeled off a 220-yd. semifinal in a near-record 21 sec., Columbia thought the championships already won. Thereupon Pitt's Woodruff, in the quarter-and half-mile races, duplicated Johnson's double victory, loping through the quarter-mile in nine-foot strides to tie the intercollegiate record of 47 sec. flat. A Pitt sprinter pulled up lame...
...moment, Washington's chief interest centred on the question of who should succeed Justice Van Devanter. Immediately dopesters trotted out the names they have been considering ever since Court enlargement was proposed: James McCauley Landis of SEC, Donald Richberg, Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter and many another. Within 24 hours, however, one name had leaped to a prominence which dwarfed all other prospects, that of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas. The President is supposed to have assured him several times over that he could have the first vacancy on the Court. Senators, not only Democrats but Republicans...
Director Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum will open these displays on June 8. On that day, far out over the Pacific, the moon will eclipse the sun for the longest period (7 min. 4 sec.) in 1,200 years. It is also the second Tuesday in June, the most popular day in the year for committing suicide...
...m.p.h. Accelerometers and a fast camera record how it reacts. Gusts are also being measured by pocket-size gadgets called V-G recorders installed on many airline transports. The China Clipper has one, for example, which indicates that maximum gust velocity over the Pacific averages 30 ft. per sec. up & down...
...Lipton, Inc. filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission a registration statement for 52,000 shares of new $25 par 6% cumulative preferred stock and 200,000 shares of $1 par Class A common stock, which represented the second and final recapitalization made by Lipton, Ltd. since February. With SEC's permission. Hallgarten & Co., Manhattan underwriters, will exercise options on 26,000 shares of preferred and 100,000 shares of Class A common and resell it to the U. S. public. The rest, together with 200,000 shares of Class B common equal in voting rights to the Class...