Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind Defending Champion Gilbert Dodds, the Boston divinity student who invariably sets an exhausting pace from gun to gun. At least 12 yards behind as they went into the final lap, Dixon came through with a finishing kick that beat Dodds by a full yard. Time: 4 min. 9.6 sec.-only 2.2 seconds behind the world's indoor record. If Frank Dixon was not a Jesse Owens of the Mile, he was decidedly impressive...
...world's records that swimmers strive for, only one has defied a generation of speedsters: the 51 sec. for 100 yards (free style), set by Johnny Weissmuller in 1927. Last week, in Yale's Payne Whitney pool, that mark too was washed away-by a 19-year-old Yale freshman named Alan Ford...
Crestfallen North American Co.-which in a happier era the President had once cited as an example of a "good" holding company-has 90 days to decide whether to surrender to SEC's disintegration order or to carry its battle on to the Supreme Court. SEC was inclined to hope that it would, since a Supreme Court ruling would decide the issue once and for all, make it unnecessary for SEC to fight four other death sentence challenges now in the lower courts. But even before last "week's decision five big systems had knuckled under, filed disintegration...
...Engineering Sci. 10a Pierce 307 English 40a Harvard 5 Fine Arts F Fogg Small Rm. Fine Arts 3d Van Rensselaer Rm. French 12 Emerson A Geography 1a Geological Lect. Rm. Geography 14a Sever 5 Geology 2a Sever 6 Geology 9a Sever 6 German E (see footnote*) Professor Lieder, Sec. 5 Emerson D German F Sever 6 Government 9a Sever 6 Government 29a Harvard 6 Greek 12 Sever 29 History 5a New Lect. Hall History 13a Emerson D History 19 Sever 30 History 46a Sever 30 History 59b Sever 29 Mathematics AIII (see footnote*) Mr. Rickart, Sec. 1 Memorial Hall...
...Guts. This set stockholders boiling again. Scrapper Norman shouted that they "wanted some directors with guts who would fight the SEC." Another proposed to pitch out the present nine-man board of directors, put in three management men, three preferred stockholders, three common shareholders. President Murphy called this "an excellent idea," but out of order unless names were submitted in advance. Then over-zealous Okin grabbed the floor again, harangued for over an hour. The shareholders listened at first, then heckled him, hooted him, finally shouted him down...