Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruyn and Hennigan. For five of the six miles the two ran almost shoulder to shoulder with Kyronen, who liked the cool weather, holding on behind them. Then, in the last mile. De Bruyn began to work his well-muscled legs faster in their choppy stride. He was 200 yd. ahead at the finish, with Hennigan second, Kyronen third, De Mar 18th, McLeod 27th. Far behind McLeod straggled a sad marathoner named Charles E. Bradford of Lowell, Mass. He was seized by a policeman as he finished the race, hustled to court where his wife was suing him for maintenance...
...European duels, the duelists firing (by agreement) into the air, thus "satisfying their honor" and whetting their appetites for the customary champagne luncheon. But last week Socialite George Bratianu had on his hands Rumania's budding Hitler, the "Baby Fascist" Gregory Filipescu. Terms of the duel: pistols at 25 yd., to be followed if no one was hit by a duel unto death with sabres...
...Clarence ("Buster") Crabbe, 22, of Los Angeles, ablest distance swimmer in the U. S.: the 1,500-metre race in the A. A. U. championships, at New Haven, lowering his own American record by 20.9 sec. to 19:45.6. Later he won two other championships?the 300-yd. medley and 500-yd. free style. Los Angeles won the team championship with 45 points to New York...
...Slim, bespectacled Ben Eastman of Stanford: a 440-yd. race at Palo Alto in which he lowered Ted Meredith's 16-year-old world record by one second...
...sale of two U. S.-built battleships to the Argentine Navy. In Paris Mr. & Mrs. Sherrill, who are childless, maintain a home. Both speak French fluently, the language of diplomacy at Angora.* He is a member of the Olympic Games committee, once (1887) was U. S. 100-yd. dash champion, originated the series of international interuniversity track meets in 1894, five years after he left New Haven. Mr. Sherrill is a trustee of New York University where he founded the fine arts school, is the author of Stained Glass Tours in France (1908), In England (1909), In Italy...