Sentence:  The crowd at the twenty-first annual K. of C. Games , final indoor meet of the season , got a thrill a few <WSD>minutes</WSD> earlier when a slender , bespectacled woman broke the one week old world record in the half-mile run . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour