Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meter free style: Olive McKean 1-mi. free style: Lenore Kight 3-meter springboard diving: Katherine Rawls 220-yd. backstroke: Alice Bridges 440-yd. free style : Lenore Kight 880-yd. free style : Lenore Kight 220-yd. breast stroke: Ann Govednik Platform diving: Dorothy Poynton Hill 300-meter medley: Katherine Rawls
...tourists is an annual automobile race. There one evening last May famed British Sportsman Kaye Don, in preparation for the race, was speeding around a corner at something like a mile a minute when his car scraped a Manxman's sedan, jumped a hedge, landed upside down 75 yd. away. Don's mechanic, Francis Taylor, was killed. When Kaye Don hobbled out of the hospital last week, he hobbled straight into an ancient courtroom where Manx Deemsters are sworn to uphold justice "as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish...
Bonthron's head suddenly began to bob more quickly. In 30 yd. around the last turn, he gained 7 yd. Down the home stretch he made up the distance more slowly, a yard at a time. Twenty yards from the tape, the two men were abreast. Ten yards farther on, Bonthron was almost 2 ft. ahead. He turned his head to look at Cunningham, then broke the tape with a world's record...
...Like Venzke, who used to run to work every day for training, Bonthron goes everywhere on his own two feet. He owns no automobile, dislikes streetcars because "they stop at every corner." In racing against Cunningham, he has perfected a technique: to stay close behind until the last 200 yd. The last thing he did in every afternoon of practice this spring was to run a fast...
...folded rotogravure pages, piles of little fabric squares, and pots of paste. All day long, day after day for a week, they neatly pasted the little squares of cloth onto the printed pages. There were 980,000 cloth samples, called "swatches" by retailers, and cut from 6,000 yd. of material, to be affixed to 469,000 copies of rotogravure with 250 Ib. of paste. When all was finished. 15 trucks carted the 16 tons of paper to the New York Herald Tribune plant...