Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last week it seemed that this might not be so. At the end of the tenth day Major General Graves B. Erskine's hell-for-leather 3rd Division recovered from its long stymie around Motoyama Airfield No. 2, finally broke through for a 1,000-yd. gain straight up the middle of Iwo Jima. Here it seemed that the Japs might crack wide open. But the Jap flanks held and they tightened their grip on the craggy ravines. Instead of falling apart, the Japs fought more fanatically than ever and postponed their downfall...
...reached them. Each hillside, every gully has its carefully camouflaged caves. One in the 4th Division area is estimated to be 800 yards long, with 14 entrances. Each cave entrance is protected by many pillboxes which can be spotted only at closest range. Around one entrance to a 200-yd. cave, I counted seven pillboxes which had housed machine guns covering every conceivable approach. Our chances of defilading these hillside cave openings are not good. Our chances of knocking out all the hidden pillboxes before we approach are worse. We have to do it the hard way: on foot...
...speed, like an automobile in second), Ford couldn't help feeling that he was loafing. Three official A.A.U. watches contradicted him : he had traveled 100 yards in 49.4 seconds, faster than any human ever swam before. It shattered Johnny Weissmuller's 17-year-old (20-yd. pool) record by four-tenths of a second...
Ford began breaking Weissmuller's records two years ago. He edged the 100-yard world's record of 51 seconds (over the international 25-yd. course), pounded it toward the magic 50 mark (50.7, 50.6, 50.1), finally did a nonpareil 49.7 last March. Last week's 49.4 was the end of the line...
...because of three weeks of rest, the Packers pounded through New York's usually reliable line, rushed for one touchdown, passed for another. The best the Giants could do (with injured Bill Paschal, the League's ground-gaining champ, in for only two plays) was one 41-yd. touchdown-producing pass. Green Bay, looking better than the 14-to-7 score, took the U.S. pro championship home to Wisconsin...