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...Tallest team on earth" is a big boast. But Al Baggett, basketball coach at West Texas State Teachers College, has a just claim. The tallest man on his team towers 6 ft. 10; the shortest 6 ft. 2. The team's average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giraffes in West Texas | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...much easier to reach Newell now than at anytime. You merely take the shortest route and venture across the the Charles, which is shorter in yardage, but it is questionable whether the impromptu hockey game which rage over its frozen surface are less of a hazard to navigation than the traffic over the Andreson bridge...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 2/13/1942 | See Source »

Somewhere in eastern Asia, probably at Rangoon, members of the Unified Allied Supreme Command (see p. 17) met this week to make ready an Allied success. There a good man reported to his chief on one of the shortest, strangest and grimmest commands ever held by a British general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Report on a Grimness | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...flash in the pan. But horsemen have a hunch that Sab will be even more remarkable as a three-year-old than he was at two. In the winter book for next spring's Kentucky Derby, he was quoted last week a 3-to-1 favorite, shortest odds ever quoted so early in the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonderhorse | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...Shortest prizefight on record lasted 11 seconds; longest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fist Facts | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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