Word: yds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Susie exploded from the starting gate with her wobbly ears cocked forward, her long stride eating up the ground. After just 50 yds., Devil Diver was three lengths back; at the wire, it was six. Megogo was never in the race. Without a single token tap of the whip, Susie had traveled the route in 1:56 3/5 - the identical time set by Seabiscuit in humbling War Admiral in the same race six years...
Last week the haggard ist Marine Division got some help from fresh units of the 81st Army Division, which landed, pushed through 4.000 yds., then encircled Bloody Nose. Peleliu's collapse was only a matter of time, might come in the typical banzai charge wherein all Japs are killed or kill themselves...
...only two handlers. They will carry messages from one of these men to the other over all kinds of terrain, against all kinds of odds, avoiding anyone else, attacking anyone, Jap or American, who tries to stop them. On a test through heavy jungle one dog covered 1,600 yds. in four-and-a-half minutes. It took a Marine runner eleven minutes to cover the same ground. If necessary a dog can carry 150 rounds of ammunition in a saddle pack...
...extreme to avoid surrender, but would also try to see that no civilian surrendered. At Marpi Point, the marines had tried to dislodge a Jap sniper from a cave in the cliff. For a Jap, he was an exceptional marksman; he had killed two marines (one at 700 yds.) and wounded a third. The marines used rifles, torpedoes and, finally, TNT in a 45-minute effort to force him out. Meantime the Jap had other business...
Bill Smith's principal opponent will be Yaleman Alan Ford (TIME, Feb. 8, 1943). Last week Sprinter Ford became the first man in history to swim 100 yds. in under 50 seconds in a regular-sized pool. He drenched his own world's record with 49·7· But at longer distances, Smith looks like the better swimmer. He holds 23 world's free-style records, from 2:07.1 for 220 yds. to 18:03.8 for 1,400 meters. He also is anchor man on the Great Lakes Naval Training Station relay team that holds three...