Word: yd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...near London, and the Tempelhof, near Berlin, at present the best equipped fields in the world. German flyers say Croydon as it was this past year was better than Tempelhof; British flyers call Tempelhof better than Croydon. Croydon's chief merit is that planes have a 1,400-yd runway in any direction. Practically all the field is grass-covered. That permits comfortable landings and takeoffs, except in rainy weather. Then the planes tear up the sod. To remedy that fault Croydon officials are considering putting a paved strip all around the field, as at the Rotterdam field. Croydon...
Swimming: 550-yd. free style-Ray Ruddy, New York A. C., 6:35; in New Haven, Conn. 600-yd. free style-Ray Ruddy, 7:13; in New Haven, Conn. 800-yd. free style-Ray Ruddy, 9:451/5; in New Haven, Conn. Automobiles: A measured mile-Major H. O. D. Seagrave in the "Golden Arrow"; 15.41 sec. average (231.3624 m.p.h.); at Daytona Beach...
...clock: University 600 yd...
...clock: Freshman 1000 yd...
...clock: University 1000 yd...