Word: sec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even better: 13.2, a full .2 sec. better than the world's record. With that, Lauer remarked casually, "I've got a world record coming in the 200-meter hurdles too." He did indeed, blazing home in 22.5-.1 sec. under the mark for the distance around a curve. The track club president celebrated by ordering beer for all hands. Lauer? He marked one of the great performances in track history by calmly going out to anchor the winning 400-meter relay team...
Birrell's New York lawyer has said he will advise Birrell to come home and fight the case. But convicting him will be no easy task because of the intricacy of his maneuvers. Said John Devaney, chief of the New York SEC's fraud division: "Birrell's strategy is well-nigh infallible...
...gifted street brawler as a youth, got married at 17, fathered a son and daughter and was later divorced. But Johansson has long since settled down, is now a shrewd investor of his fight earnings, owns profitable construction and fishing companies in Sweden. For working 8 min. 3 sec. last week, Entrepreneur Johansson earned an estimated $250,000 (v. Patterson...
...Abilene Christian College, has been recognized as the world's No. 1 sprinter. But this year Morrow has won occasionally but lost often-not because he is running any slower but because a new crop of sprinters has appeared to make a wholesale onslaught on the 9.3-sec. world record for the 100-yd. dash. So far this year three of Morrow's challengers-Bill Woodhouse, Ray Norton and Roscoe Cook-have equaled the world record...
...electrical current. Before the current reaches the recording apparatus Pomeroy and Sutton pass it through a special galvanometer-a coil that makes a small weight move against the resistance of a delicate spring. The waves in which they are interested are long and of low frequency (40 to 50 sec.). They found that by choosing a galvanometer with the proper relationship between coil and spring, they could mechanically "tune" their system to register only long earthquake waves and filter out shorter microseisms...