Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Short-legged runners often have trouble getting started. A poor start was what beat Eddie Tolan of Michigan, holder of the official world's 100-yd. dash record (9.5 sec.) in the intercollegiate championships at Cambridge last month. Last week on a hard clay horserace track at Vancouver, B. C., Tolan tensed his little black body beside the big white frames of George Simpson (Ohio State) and Percy Williams of Canada, the Olympic champion. When the gun cracked it was Tolan who sprang away fastest. He led all the way to the tape, 100 metres away, arriving there...
...Bombay Indian cotton prices broke seriously. April imports of piece goods were reported as 165,000,000 yd. as against 215,000,000 yd. for April 1929. The cotton spinning of individual Gandhi followers was said to be seriously affecting the British cotton piece goods trade...
...Southern California track team: the intercollegiate championship at Cambridge, Mass, with 44¼ points; Stanford second, 36¼ points; Harvard, 23½. Sprinter Frank Wycoff won the 100-yd. dash but failed to break the world's record (TIME, June...
...show the mechanism of the body there is a display of the lungs showing that they hold only some four to six quarts of air, but have about 120 sq. yd. of surface with which to absorb oxygen. There is a model to demonstrate how the 10-oz. heart moves a total of 20 tons of blood daily. After the "Man" exhibit, most interest focused on the physical culture section. This shows with models and pictures the various laws which govern the structure and functions of the body. Scenes depict how various peoples and bodies at various times get their...
Trials of the 100 and 220-yd. dashes will be run this afternoon at 4 o'clock, instead of Friday, as originally scheduled...