Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...registered to win the 1927 British Open on that course-a total good enough to have won any championship ever played at ancient St. Andrews. Hailed as the greatest discovery since Jones, Jim Bruen, who weighs 200 Ib. and can make an eagle 3 look simple on a 530-yd. hole, was promptly named on the British Walker Cup team the day before his 18th birthday-along with five Englishmen, two Scots...
...Princeton's track team, undefeated in dual meets this year; the fourth annual Heptagonal meet (with Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, Penn), climax of the Ivy League season; scoring in 13 of the 15 events and winning four (half-mile, 440-yd. relay, broad jump, hammer throw) ; for a total of 59¼ points; before a crowd of 10,000; at Princeton, N. J. Cornell was second, Columbia third...
...Robert Ley, a 15 1/2-knot motor ship of 25,000 tons, is about the size of the two biggest ships (Manhattan and Washington) of the U. S. merchant marine. Besides a swimming pool with "voluptuous murals" and 5,000 sq. yd. of deck space, it has outside staterooms for all its 1,500 passengers. The Robert Ley is the second of no less than 20 25,000-ton ships planned for Kraft durch Fretide-no small project since there are now only about two dozen ships in the world which are as big. If built they will give Germany...
Last week oldsters rubbed their eyes when, picking up their morning papers, they read about Jim Lightbody winning a 600-yd. run and setting a new meet record. It was not triple-Olympic Champion Jim Lightbody. to be sure, but his son, a 19-year-old Harvard sophomore, running in the Quadrangular (Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell) Meet at Boston...
...expected, Michigan won, but only after the score had been tied three times and finally clinched (41-to-34) in the very last event on the program when Michigan's Haynie beat Yale's Captain John Macionis by a touch in the anchor leg of the 400-yd. relay...