Word: yd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After warming up with an easy 1,500-meter freestyle victory at the A.A.U. national indoor swimming championships in New Haven, Australian Olympian Murray Rose, 18, felt so relaxed that he forgot to count the laps when he kicked off next night in the 22O-yd. grind. With only 20 yds. left to go, Murray, now a Southern California freshman, suddenly realized the race was almost over. He thrashed up to full speed, just managed to come up from third to touch out his countryman and collegemate, Jon Henricks. in a meet-record...
...rest of her performance that they gave her first place in every event and named her U.S. champion. ¶ University of Michigan Sophomore Tony Tashnick, 19, made all the difference in the 35th annual N.C.A.A. swimming championships at Ann Arbor. After setting a meet record in the 200-yd. butterfly (2:04.2), tireless Tony came back to tie the meet record in the 100-yd. butterfly (0:54.6), boosted the Wolverines to 72 points and the championship. ¶ Winter-book bettors got some new form to fret over when Kentucky Derby hopefuls went to the post in both Florida...
...could even detect errors in Ammannati's work. But he concluded they were "adorable errors," and carefully preserved them. Workers pieced together fragments of the four statues of the seasons from the river bed, placed them in their old positions on the four corners of the 110-yd.-long span...
...ever run an indoor mile before. ¶ Overflowing with swimming talent as always, Yale Coach Bob Kiphuth took a couple of flipper-footed juniors to the Eastern Intercollegiate championships at Annapolis and saw them collect three titles apiece. Burly Roger Anderson accounted for the 100-, 220-and 440-yd...
free-style championships; slim Tim Jecko splashed off with the 100-and 200-yd. butterfly and the 200-yd. individual medley as well. ¶ Although their only national champion, Epee Expert James Margolis, was sidelined with a pulled tendon, Columbia University swordsmen lunged across the ballroom of The Bronx's Concourse Plaza Hotel with such swashbuckling skill that they piled up 71 points in foil, épée and saber bouts, and won the three-weapon intercollegiate title. Second: N.Y.U. with 66. ¶ The Fish and Wildlife Service reported an alltime record sale of 19,276,767 fishing...