Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fastest time for the Henley Saturday was set by the Tech Varsity with six minutes, 41 seconds--only one second over the Henley record on the Charles Basin set two years ago by Harvard. Crimson crew times: Varsity, 6 min., 45 sec.; 150's, 6 min., 53 sec.; Freshmen, 7 min., 3 sec.; J. V.'s, 7 min., 9.3 sec...
...Cadaverous James M. ("Chink") Landis, on leave of absence as Dean of Harvard's Law School, ex-Chairman of SEC, ex-member of the Federal Trade Commission, now finally became ex-OCDirector (TIME, Aug. 16). Translated into Iraqi, his new title should roll impressively off the tongue: "American Director of Economic Operations in the Middle East and principal American Civilian Representative at the Middle East Supply Center, with the personal rank of Minister." His job: to strengthen the U.S. management of the Middle East Supply Center, a joint U.S.-British project which routes civilian supplies to some 80 million...
...clock finished chiming the hour. Next year at Amsterdam he won the Olympic 400-meter hurdles. Prewar voyagers on the Queen Mary could view a brass plate on the promenade deck recording Lord Burghley's dash around the quarter-mile deck in full evening dress-time: 58 sec. In 1931 he stood as a Conservative, was elected to the House of Commons. In 1932 he went to Los Angeles as captain of the British Olympic Track Team...
There! In Washington, a Post Office Department ruling forbade the mailing of false teeth unless the package was plainly lettered: "MAILING NOT PROHIBITED by Sec...
Gunder Hägg, the Swedish track flash, set a world's record for the twomile: 8 min. 53.9 sec. He had already been making time in Hollywood-for a traveling companion around one movie lot he had green-eyed Greer Garson...