Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipment is British-made, and the best. A bat costs $18. Batting gloves are $5 a pair, kneepads $10. The ball costs $5. Because the fields are not surfaced for cricket, each team has to bring its own 20-yd.-long fiber mat ($75 apiece) to cover the pitch (bowling area). The supply of balls is running low, but a shipment from Britain is expected to ease the situation...
...Equaled the 100-yd. free-style world record he had set the week before (TIME, March 27) in 49.7 seconds. That time had broken Ford's previous record-50.7 seconds-which in turn had broken the 17-year-old record set by Johnny Weissmuller...
...Yale pool record for the 50-yd. free-style U.S.-22.2 seconds-a tenth of a second away from Henry Kozlowski's world record...
...yd. backstroke event in 1:36.8. Harry Holiday Jr.'s world record...
...Japs were surprised. Shells fell around the boats as they pushed their way into a 50-yd.-wide channel through coral reefs. But the Japs were too late, their resistance disorganized. The green-clad troop tumbled out onto a strip of beach and drove the defenders back into the jungles with gunfire...