Word: meters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Murphy '25, against Princeton and Syracuse. The Syracuse team won the indoor intercollegiate mile relay last week in New York, and is favored slightly tonight. It is expected that the final leg of the race, between Captain J. W. Burke '23, Allen Woodring of Syracuse, the Olympic 200 meter champion, and Courtney Taylor, Princeton, will show some excellent running...
...notable features of the play is Leslie Howard's anglicised delivery of American colloquialism. Another is a polite flirtation in a taxicab, to the accompaniment of a clicking meter. The weather is unpleasant in the first act, but the rain is not nearly as wet as that in the play named after...
...meter run (indoor): Willie Ritola, Finnish-American...
...United States government has already taken steps for the adoption of the metric system, and now conducts all surveys and map work by it. The familiar "Buffalo Nickel" has the standard weight of five grams. The foot and the "lb." are, by law, expressed as fractions of the meter and kilogram. And beyond this, in the field of electrical engineering, all measurements are based on the "centimeter, gram, second" system; while many prominent manufacturing concerns have already adopted it. Only the force of inertia always present in the "great American public" has prevented its general acceptance...
...uprooting a firmly established "system" and installing a new one in its stead, that causes the difficulty. In British Columbia with the change from left to right it has been found necessary to set up new sign-posts over three thousand miles of road, and the introduction of the meter to America would cause a great many minor changes.--but like Arabic numerals, the metric system is sure to be universally accepted sooner or later...