Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money. Finishing with a smoking 68 Sam Snead broke the tournament record by two strokes with 280, seemed the winner. Ralph Guldahl started the last nine needing a 33, three under par, to beat him. He got a birdie, two pars. Then he hit a weak, 22O-yd. drive on the 480-yd. 13th and his jig seemed to be up. His ball was in a downhill lie; yawning in front of the green 260 yards away was a deep, water-filled ravine. Without hesitation Guldahl took a spoon instead of a safe iron, swung with all his 200 pounds...
...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 the long course the brightness peaks (nicks) lag somewhat behind those on the other. From the amount of this lag the length of one section is calculated...
...yd. free-style relay: Won by Har. (R. Urquhart, R. MacMaster, D. Van Vort, E. Goldwasser); second, Springfield (Page, Watson, Eck, R. Pohndorf) Time...
Ever since 1869, when 50 long-trousered, bewhiskered Princeton and Rutgers students kicked a "bag of wind" up & down a 360-yd. field to see which side could kick it between the goal posts six times, the U.S. game of football has undergone almost as many changes as women's hats. Last week when the American Football Coaches Association met in Chicago for their annual rule-tinkering, they wrote an extraordinary page into the annals of the sport. The world might be going politically and economically arsy-versy, but the coaches failed to recommend a single major football change...
...unnoticed qualities in the squad, he said, and makes the season more interesting all around. Another meet on the same plan will be run with Tufts, January 14. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS In Carey Cage 2:15 Shot put 35 lb. weight Pole vault In Briggs Cage 3:15 35 yd. high hurdles 3:30 35 yd. dash 3:40 35 yd. low hurdles 3:45 300 yd. run. 4:00 1000 yd. run 4:10 600 yd. run 4:25 3/4 mile run 4:35 880 yd...