Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sec-saw battle from the start to finish. Going into the second half leading 21 to 17, five quick point by Bob James gave the home team a commanding lead. The visitors, however, tied it up 30 to 30 at the midway mark...
Nearly three years ago TNEC ("Monopoly Committee") asked SEC to investigate insurance. To make the investigation (which they limited to legal reserve life insurance), SEC appointed Ernest J. Howe and Gerhard A. Gesell. For weeks their report has been ready, emitting occasional hisses like a buried bomb, waiting for TNEC Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney to make up his mind to release it. Last week he did so. The explosion was loud. But very few people got hurt...
...Incredible!" gasped U. S. track fans when Finn Paavo Nurmi ran two miles in 8 min., 58.2 sec. That was 16 years ago. Last week, in Madison Square Garden, barrel-chested, short-legged Gregory Rice, 25-year-old ex-Notre Damer, made mighty Nurmi's record look poky. Fitter-pattering around to the tune of Notre Dame's Victory March, Runner Rice whittled the two-mile world's record down to 8:53.4-nearly three seconds faster than the accepted world's record, indoors or out. "Incredible!" gasped U. S. track fans...
Breck Marshall, a 128-pounder who pinned his foe in 3 min., 57 sec., and Edward Guild, a former Exeter lad who won by decision in the 136-pound class, were the only two victorious grapplers for the Yardlings...
...mermen won as many first places as Exeter, but they did not garner as many second and third positions. Charley Gabeler took the 50-yard free style in the time of 25.6 sec.; Captain John Eusden followed with a first in the 100-yard free style in 56.2 sec. After Bill Hewes won the fancy diving, the '44 200-yard free style relay team of Ed Stevens, Dave Barnes, Gabeler, and Eusden flashed across the finish line first in the time of 1 min., 43sec...