Word: meters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major explanation of the phenomenon of Robert William Feller is his father, William Andrew Feller of Van Meter, Iowa (pop. 410). Frustrated in his own ambition to be a professional baseballer, Father Feller decided to realize it vicariously in his son. When Robert Feller was four, he and his father played catch behind the barn on the 360-acre Feller wheat farm. At 9, Robert Feller could throw a baseball 275 ft. At 13 he could do better than 350 ft.* At 14, he could pitch so fast that his father had a hard time catching the ball and once...
Fever therapists are waiting for some industrial physicist to build a tiny radio tube which will emit a wave eight-tenths of a meter (31.2 in.) long at a frequency of 320 million cycles per second. Such radiation would heat only the patient's blood and not affect flesh or bone...
What annoyed Eleanor most was the fact that she was judged only by conduct, not by performance. "How much fun do you think I had," she exclaimed, "sitting in the stands and watching a Dutch girl win the 100-meter backstroke in 1:23, when I had been working out regularly...
...Technology; after two months' illness; in Swampscott, Mass. A precocious British immigrant who built an electric friction generator out of a wine bottle before he entered high school, Elihu Thomson invented electric welding, the standard three-phase alternating current generator, the centrifugal cream separator, the common watt meter, the street arc lamp; built the first electric locomotive for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
Contestants for the $200 John Osborne Sargent Prize should hand in their metrical translations of Homer's ninth ode of the fourth book at 20 University Hall by Wednesday, April 1. Undergraduates of Radcliffe and Harvard are eligible for competition, and the translations may be transposed in any meter...