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Word: sec (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Villanova's unbeaten junior, Charley Jenkins, sprinted to a world's indoor record for the 500-yd. run (56.4 sec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonderful Whale | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...fortunate man, and not the least of the good graces attending his life is his sister Elizabeth. In her account of his youth, he seems a little like Frank Merriwell. Adlai could swim across large lakes (two miles in the creditable time of 1 hr. 16 min. 21 sec.), climb a Swiss mountain quicker than almost anyone (so the guide said), and play the mandolin. In her diary his sister recorded: "Today the girls [at camp] saw Adlai!! Tonight one of the girls fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buffie on Adlai | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Washington, D.C., Dave Sime, Duke sophomore, ran 100 yds. in 9.5 sec. to break the American indoor mark. At the Women's National A.A.U. indoor championships, smooth-striding Tennessee A. & I. Sprinter Isabelle Daniels broke the world's 50-yd.-dash record with a 5.8-sec. qualifying heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Canadian dealers, free from SEC rules, began trading the stock several hours before the SEC officially approved the U.S. stock registration. In short order the price soared to $69.25 a share. In U.S. over-the-counter markets (Ford will not go on the New York Stock Exchange until about March 1), it shot to $70.75; on European markets it rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: F-day | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...acoustics of the church must be sufficiently "sec" (dry) to let the organ sound clearly. Two years ago, a Swedish record fan sent Westminster a tape of an organ in Varfrukyrka (Our Lady's Church) in the small city of Skanninge, 180 miles south of Stockholm. The Westminster project was front-page news in Stockholm (13th CENTURY SWEDISH

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Organ Revival | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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