Word: seconde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealed that Eric Cutler, tired after his epochal 1500-meter second, had swum a heat of the 440, but that his time of 5:03 was too slow to quality for the finals. Cutler's ailing arm was another factor to slow him up. Frannie Powers won his heat of the quarter in 5:08, but his time was too slow...
...train of light emitted from a 1,000-watt lamp is "sectioned" by a formidable-looking device called a standard frequency generator (see cut), also developed at Harvard, which alternately brightens and dims the beam 19,200,000 times a second. This is like nicking at regular but very close intervals a cable which is rapidly being paid off a drum. The light beam is split. One part is conducted over a long course (185 yd.), the other over a short course (about 2 yd.). Both are reflected back to a photoelectric cell. On the beam which has been over...
...technique was worked out by Texas-born, 30-year-old Physicist Wilmer C. Anderson who, on the basis of his experiments so far, believes he has reduced the margin of error in measuring light's enormous speed to two and one-half miles per second. When his program of measurements is completed, he expects to have the most accurate figure ever obtained for the velocity of the universe's fastest thing...
...than those in other sports arenas, he invited the great Glenn Cunningham to race over it. No official world record could be hung up, because the International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes only outdoor performances. Cunningham amazed everybody with a 4:04.4 mile, the fastest ever run by man, two seconds under British Sydney Charles Wooderson's world record. Unsure of the track, Cunningham ran his second quarter in a slow 64 seconds; later he figured he could have run the distance safely two seconds faster...
Married. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay, 24, great-granddaughter of Inventor-Industrialist Peter Cooper (founder of Manhattan's famed free educational centre, Cooper Union), heiress to $10,000,000; and one Gene Bradstreet, 23; she for the second time; in Reno. In 1936 Heiress Hewitt started suit against her mother for tricking her into being sterilized, allowed the suit to languish because "no matter what she is, she's still my mother." Next year she married Ronald Gay, onetime automobile mechanic, lived with him a few months, sued him for divorce. Recently she has been living at El Cortez...