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-- The best 2-year-old pacing mile up to date at Ben White Raceway has been that of Mary Liner ( Mainliner-Highland Ellen ), a member of the Dick Williams stable, who was clocked 2:25.
His best mile to date is 2:28-:33.
Since 1 minute of error is about a nautical mile, the best possible accuracy of celestial navigation is about.
The introduction of sugar cane became the single best move for the Barbados economy at the time, the economy boomed and Barbados had become populated with so many windmills that the island had the second highest density of windmills per square mile in the world, second only to the Netherlands.
In 1966, at age nineteen, Ryun set world records in the mile and the half-mile runs, and received Sports Illustrated magazine's " Sportsman of the Year " award, as well as the James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete, the ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year, and was voted Track & Field News ' Athlete of the Year as the world ’ s best track & field athlete.
Ryun's final season as an amateur in 1972 included the third-best mile of his career ( at the time, also the third fastest in history: a 3: 52. 8 at Toronto, Canada on July 29 ), a 5, 000-meter career best ( 13: 38. 2 at Bakersfield, CA on May 20 ), and an inspiring win in the 1, 500 meters at the U. S. Olympic Trials.
Andover has two golf courses within a mile of each other and one in the southernmost part of the city that, in 2005-2006, was rated the 43rd best golf course in the country by Golf Digest Magazine ..
The area was best known from the 1850s to the early 1900s for the Carmel Grove Campgrounds located about half a mile north of the depot on the east side of Hooper Road, near the intersection of what is now Country Club Road.
His best time for the mile was 1: 53 ( then a world record which stood for three years ), set as a 4-year-old in August 1979 at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
His best time for the mile was 1: 53. 1.
At the 1975 Canadian Pacing Derby he tied for first in a dead heat with Pickwick Baron, and won outright in 1976 and 1977, setting a best time for the mile of 1: 54. 3, a world record at the time.
At the age of 71 years, 5 months and 19 days he qualified 16th setting a personal best speed in the quarter mile with a time of 4. 788 seconds at 319. 98 miles per hour.
Although a quarter mile ( 402 m ) is the best known measure for a drag track, many tracks are eighth mile ( 201 m ) tracks, and the premiere classes will run 1, 000 foot ( 301m ) races.
Rated at, the F platform's best 1 / 4 mile times would be just inside 16-seconds at.
They tested a Cobra equipped with the 429 CJ, C-6 automatic, 3. 50: 1 gears, and were only able to turn a best quarter mile time of about 15 seconds at.
The closest and probably best site is Newhaven Fort, a 5 mile diversion from the path, which is an attraction that houses many World War 2 artefacts and documents with impressive examples of the huge cannons used in coastal defence.
His best time of 1: 52. 1 for the mile was taken as a three-year-old in a race in Springfield, Illinois ; this time set the world record for trotters.
As a middle-distance runner at the school, his personal best was 4: 10 mile, winning varsity letters for track in 1957, 1958, and 1959.
El Guerrouj set two world indoor records at the start of the 1997 season, starting with a 1500 m record of 3: 31. 18 at the Sparkassen Cup and setting a new indoor best of 3: 48. 45 in the mile run at the Indoor Flanders meeting a few weeks later.
In 1975 he ran a personal best 3: 52. 2 in the mile, finishing second to Filbert Bayi ( who broke Ryun's world record in that race by 0. 1 second with a 3: 51. 0 ), and set a United States record of 8: 17. 12 in the 2 mile.
One of the first magazine articles to offer NSX test data showed the lightweight 3. 0L NSX producing a best 0-60 mp / h time of 5. 03 seconds and 13. 47 seconds for the quarter mile.
Prefontaine's freshman and sophomore years were described as unspectacular, managing a 5: 01 mile personal best in his first year.

best and date
In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.
Her best time to date is about 2:30.
The terms are fairly safe to use on this side of the ocean, but before you start spouting them to your date, it might be best to find out if he was a member of Major Pockmanster's Delhi Regiment, since resentment toward the natives was reportedly very high in that outfit.
The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.
" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.
In 1996, the ten-year-old Brisbane Bears had enjoyed their best season to date, losing a preliminary final to the eventual premiers, North Melbourne.
This can lead to very high prices as dedicated collectors compete for the very best specimens of, for example, each date and mint mark combination.
In practice, this means the government remains in power for close to its full term, and choose an election date it calculates to be in its best interests ( unless something special happens, such as a motion of no-confidence ).
Clause 2 provided that Britain " should use its best endeavours to ensure than an area situated in the territory of the Jewish State, including a seaport and hinterland adequate to provide facilities for a substantial immigration, shall be evacuated at the earliest possible date and in any event not later than 1 February 1948 ".
The best known find is the Lewis chessmen, which date from the mid 12th century.
Derek Elley of Variety described the film as " playful and sporty ," saying that this was Dunst's best performance to date: " Believable as both a spoiled ingenue and a lover to two very different men, Dunst endows a potentially lightweight character with considerable depth and sympathy.
In the 2002 superhero film Spider-Man, the most successful film of her career to date, Dunst played Mary Jane Watson, the best friend and love interest of the title character, played by Tobey Maguire.
Manufactured by Warner Music Japan, this limited edition ( and currently out of print ) CD offers improved sound quality, the best of any version to date.
To date, the best known examples of an anarchist communist society ( ie, established around the ideas as they exist today and achieving worldwide attention and knowledge in the historical canon ), are the anarchist territories during the Spanish Revolution and the Free Territory during the Russian Revolution.
The band members each stated in interviews that, due in no small part to their collective push for sobriety, Dr. Feelgood was their most solid album musically to that point, and indeed, it was their best selling album to date.
He is best known for commissioning and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar, which remains the internationally accepted civil calendar to this date.
This film maintained a period-accurate filming style, and was received as both " the best HPL adaptation to date " and, referring to the decision to make it as a silent movie, " a brilliant conceit.
The story of the pear tree, best known to English speaking readers from The Canterbury Tales, also originates from Persia in the Bahar-Danush, in which the husband climbs a date tree instead of a pear tree.
While not her highest chart debut, debut sales for From the Choirgirl Hotel are Amos's best to date, selling 153, 000 copies in its first week.
A detailed account of the abbey at this date exists in the Chronica monasterii Cassinensis by Leo of Ostia and Amatus of Monte Cassino gives us our best source on the early Normans in the south.
In 2009, Tharp worked with the songs of Frank Sinatra to mount Come Fly With Me, which ran at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta and was the best selling four-week run as of the date of closing in 2009.
In modern times, the term Ides of March is best known as the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 B. C.

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