Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago was considered the greatest ever developed in the U. S. - Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania. As usual, they let Venzke lead for the first lap. Cunningham passed him first, Bonthron a little farther on. One hundred and fifty yards from the finish, when Cunningham was 15 yd. ahead and gaining slowly, it looked as if last week's race might be a replica of the one at Princeton three weeks ago when Cunningham won by 40 yd. with a new world's record for the mile. But spectators were destined to see a finish none of them...
...Bonthron had been training separately, golfing together. There he put on track clothes, limbered up for a few minutes while a crowd of 25,000 Alumni Day visitors poured into Palmer Stadium. At the gun, Venzke, best stylist of the three, set the pace. Cunningham passed him at 500 yd., Bonthron on the next curve. What happened next was so amazing to spectators that they could scarcely believe their eyes. Cunningham reeled off the fastest third quarter on record - 61.8. Then he really opened up and whipped around the last quarter in the incredible time of 59.1. After crossing...
...back to the Capitol, got Congress to accept a four-word amendment, and two days later the President blessed it with his signature. ¶Under special powers granted by the Recovery Act, President Roosevelt last week upped the tariff on Japanese cotton rugs from 10? to 25? a sq. yd. The increase, 150%, was three times that which he could have made under the provisions of the flexible tariff law. ¶ Executing a second aboutface, President Roosevelt won a compromise agreement on the Stock Exchange Control bill vhich speeded it toward enactment. Originally Mr. Roosevelt accepted Senator Glass...
...green where Wallace three-putted and lost the hole 5 to 4. After that he stumped bravely around the course, hammering out a mediocre 80, partly because his attention, like the crowd's, was less on his own game than on his opponent's. On the 505-yd. third, Little put his brassie shot on the green and sank a 15-ft. putt for a 3 to Wallace's birdie 4. On the sixth, he holed a 20-ft. putt for a birdie. On the 461-yd. 13th he just missed a putt...
...University of Illinois team: the Western Conference ("Big Ten") track and field championship at Evanston, Ill. Illinois took 45 points (29 of them in the 100-yd., 220-yd. and shot-put events); Indiana, 40 3/5; Michigan...