Word: meters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tonight will find the swimmers from 17 eastern colleges competing in the 200 breaststroke, the 100 free-style, the 440 free-style, the three-meter (high) diving, and the 400 free-style relay. Harvard men have fine chances of winning all but the breaststroke...
From the research Dr. Drinker has been able to set standards of air purity which can be maintained by ventilation and which will ensure freedom of the workers from possible injury. The simple compound, trichlornapthalene can be present up to 10 milksops per cubic meter of air without ill effects. The more complex compounds, tetrachlornaphthalene, pentachlornap thalene, hexachloranapthalene and chlorinated biphenyl, can be present at safely only to the extend of half a milligram per cubic meter...
Harvard placed third in the Lake Placid annual college ski week competition, which ended Saturday with the jump on the 30-meter hill at Intervale...
Radiations & Flesh. To guard against injury from radiations in the vicinity of the cyclotron, Dr. Lawrence's crew carry small electroscopes in their pockets which they discharge into a meter at the end of the working day to see how much radiation they have been exposed to. Since neutrons cannot be controlled by magnetic fields and slide easily through almost all substances except those rich in hydrogen, Dr. Lawrence moved the control panel 60 ft. away from the apparatus and surrounded the machine with tanks of water six feet high, three feet thick (every water molecule contains two neutron...
...meet record of 4 min. 46 sec., setting along the course a new 300 yd. U. S. record of 3 min. 14.2 sec.; his second 880-yd. championship in 10 min. 19.2 sec.: in Chicago. Backstroke Champion Adolph Kiefer lowered his own meet record in the 100-meter championship...