It was a gymnastic event sanctioned by both the NCAA and the AAU until the early 1960s.

But it was National AAU champion swimmer, Esther Williams, who popularized synchronized swimming through ( often elaborately staged ) scenes in Hollywood films such as Bathing Beauty ( 1944 ), Million Dollar Mermaid ( 1952 ), and Jupiter's Darling ( 1955 ).

Syracuse was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1966 but withdrew its membership in 2011 due to diverging views in evaluating criteria between the University and the AAU.

In 1985, the University of Florida was invited to become a member of the Association of American Universities ( AAU ), an organization composed of now sixty-three academically prominent public and private research universities in the United States and Canada.

Fowler was an Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU ) All-America in 1967 and again in 1968 for Akron Goodyear Wingfoots.

Jarvis, an AAU champion in the 100 y, was among the pre-race favourites for the 100 m at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, but the hot favourite was American Arthur Duffey, who won the British Championships just prior to the Games.

Brown had operated several AAU teams in and around New York City, and was viewed as an ideal pick to run the nascent league's New York franchise.

He was the AAU champion at in 1927, at road race in 1922, 1923 and from 1925 to 1927, at steeplechase in 1923, 1926 and 1927 and at cross county in 1922, 1923 and from 1925 to 1927.

In 1971 he suffered his worst defeat, placing 10th at the AAU Mr. America, which was won by Casey Viator.

He was the first African-American AAU Mr. America ,( Harold Poole was the first African American to win the 1964 IFBB Mr. America ) but also the oldest winner, at age 43, of the IFBB Mr. Olympia contest, which he won in 1982.

When he was 14, he attempted to enter his first boxing tournament but was told he needed to first obtain an AAU membership card.

While he was shaking hands, Scherick said, if the mood seemed right, might he cut a deal to broadcast AAU events on ABC?

When the officials thought he had won the race, Lorz played along with his practical joke until he was found out shortly after the medal ceremony and was banned for a year by the AAU for this stunt, later winning the 1905 Boston Marathon.

In 1998, 2001, 2006, and 2010 Hampton Roads was hosting the AAU Junior Olympics.

He never won a national championship in either jump, but he was the 1897 and 1903 AAU champion in the all-around, an event similar to the decathlon.

He was the 1969 National AAU Heavyweight Champion.

When Minneapolis Lakers owner Bob Short was permitted to move the Lakers to Los Angeles, Saperstein reacted by convincing National Alliance of Basketball Leagues ( NABL ) team owner Paul Cohen ( Tuck Tapers ) and Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU ) National Champion Cleveland Pipers owner George Steinbrenner to take the top NABL and AAU teams and players and form a rival league.

The team was coached by another AAU Elite alum, Alex Hannum.

In seventeen weeks the military front was driven southward more than 100 miles.

Meanwhile, in Moscow, Khrushchev was adding his bit to the march of world law by promising to build a bomb with a wallop equal to 100 million tons of TNT, to knock sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can't see the justice of surrendering West Berlin to communism.

In one of these, an exploding-wire device to study systems thermodynamically up to 6,000 Af and 100 atmospheres pressure, a major goal was achieved.

that he was `` devoting an average of 100 hours a month to actual preaching publicly '', in addition to 50 to 75 hours in other ministerial duties, and that he opposed war in any form.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

I tested it in my scoped S & W and it was good enough to allow me to hit a chuck with every shot at 100 yards if I did my part by holding the handgun steadily.

Of interest is a recent announcement by Du Pont's Polychemicals Dept. of a new methyl methacrylate monomer designated as Monocite H 100, which was developed specifically for production of cast acrylic sheets for the sign and lighting industry.

The dependence of the arc voltage upon the mass flow velocity of the transpirating gas was investigated for various arc lengths and currents between 100 Amp and 200 Aj.

At 100 Amp the 360 cycle ripple was less than 0.5 V ( peak to peak ) with a resistive load.

There was a slight lapse condition, a moderate fog, and 100 per cent relative humidity.

As can be seen from these dosage isopleths, approximately 100 square miles was covered within the area sampled.

The DEAE-cellulose, containing 0.78 mEq of N/g, was prepared in our laboratory by the method of Peterson and Sober ( 7 ) from powdered cellulose, 100 - 230 mesh.

In the first few experiments Af was passed through Dowex-2-chloride twice and absorbed twice with 50 - 100 mg sweet clover tissue powder.

The revised draft was mailed in July, 1960, to 100 firms throughout the United States.

The second test mailing ( to 100 companies ) was made in July, 1960.

Or, he might remind Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonishingly low: after all, the medieval guild system was dedicated to the proposition that 100 per cent of the workers ought to turn out only the average amount ; ;

Mitchell was for using it, Jones against, and Sen. Wayne Dumont Jr. R-Warren did not mention it when the three Republican gubernatorial candidates spoke at staggered intervals before 100 persons at the Park Hotel.

`` This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated '', he said.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

Nevertheless, in spite of Rutherford's estimation that gold had a central charge of about 100 ( but was element Z = 79 on the periodic table ), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, Antonius van den Broek first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons in an atom was exactly equal to its place in the periodic table ( also known as element number, atomic number, and symbolized Z ).

Posthumously, he was named " Asian of the Century " in the " Arts, Literature, and Culture " category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited as " one of the people who contributed most to the betterment of Asia in the past 100 years ".

He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.

Every path from back door to barn was covered by a grape-arbor, and every yard had its fruit trees.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

He was able, now, to sit for hours in a chair in the living room and stare out at the bleak yard without moving.

The most beautiful bed of pansies I've seen was in a South Dakota yard on a sizzling day.

Diane was needed as a material witness in the case and New York police searched three continents before they found her in their own back yard -- in a swank hotel, of course.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

She said it was after she returned from her vomiting spell in the back yard that Mrs. Borden told her to wash the windows.

Morse could have returned openly while Bridget was sick in the back yard and gone up to the room he had occupied.

Maggie started laughing, and she laughed so hard she couldn't stop, and she kept on laughing while she lugged the clothes out to the yard to hang them up while the sun was still shining.

It was a vivid, sharp February morning that Johnnie first made his appearance in my back yard, bringing some stuff Dad had ordered.

An archaeological investigation of the site of the visitors ' centre before building started revealed the foundations of the medieval precinct wall, with a gateway, and stonework discarded during manufacture, showing that the area was the site of the masons ' yard while the Abbey was being built.

The next day, a supervisor passing through the yard realized that the fixture was not road debris but was in fact one of the fixtures used to light the tunnel itself.

* In the 1984 season, the ball was placed on the 30 yard line ( instead of the 20 ) if a kickoff sailed through the end zone on the fly and untouched.

* Following a single or rouge, play resumes with the non-scoring team scrimmaging from its own 35-yard line, unless the single is awarded on a missed field goal, in which case the non-scoring team scrimmages from either the 35-yard line or the yard line from which the field goal was attempted, whichever is greater.

A league record-setting 105, 121 fans showed up to completely pack Cowboys Stadium for the game before which the traditional " blue star " at the 50 yard line was unveiled for the first time ; however, the Cowboys lost in the final seconds, 33 – 31.

" Van Tassel later described the historic play to the United Press :" I was the right halfback, and on this formation played one yard back of our right tackle.

Lothar Emmerich slammed the ball into the wall, the ball ricocheted across goal and Banks struggled to follow it across his six yard box, such was the speed and unpredictability of its movement as it took deflections and swipes.

Unfortunately, the first shed was accidentally destroyed by contractors in the early 1970s during a clean-up of the factory yard.

The Allied bombing of a rail yard was accomplished with real dynamite, as the French rail authority needed to enlarge the track gauge.

The first submarine, U-1 was delivered in December 1906, built by Krupp's Germania yard in Kiel.

Newton Heath initially played on a field on North Road, close to the railway yard ; the original capacity was about 12, 000, but club officials deemed the facilities inadequate for a club hoping to join The Football League.

The first touchdown in the new facility was scored by Joe Senser on an 11 yard pass from Tommy Kramer.