Word: sec
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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