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Sueo Ohe of Keio University with only five days to accustom himself to a board runway, indoor performing, New York City and new vaulting poles, smilingly hoisted himself through the din of the evening hours up over the rising crossbar until World Record Holder George Varoff of the University of Oregon (14 ft., 6½ in.), Olympic Champion Earle Meadows of Southern California (14 ft., 3¼ in.) and five other contestants had tumbled defeated into the sawdust landing pit. Ohe sailed easily over 14 ft. 3 in. for a new meet record. A jury of sportswriters voted...
...truly urgent feeling. Critics were unable to agree on Lulu's worth last week. Olin Downes of the New York Times pronounced it "involved trash," while Lawrence Gilman of the Herald Tribune went the whole hog in the other direction by saying: "The layman, if he can accustom himself to a doubtless indisposing idiom, will find in it a lacerating beauty, a piercing expressiveness often overwhelming which reveals Berg for what he is: a poet, a man of tormenting sensibility...
...Tilden. Critics considered it the best professional tennis ever played in the U. S., found Tilden and Cochet as evenly matched as they were when they played against each other in the National Singles at Forest Hills in 1926. Cochet, still trying to accustom himself to artificial lights and the green canvas court which is part of the baggage of a Tilden tennis tour, said he expected to turn the tables, failed to do so in Boston where Tilden & Vines made another clean sweep. Itinerary of the tour: Boston, Montreal, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Newark, New Haven...
...perhaps this is too much to hope for. Probably the budget shall be balanced and the Stock Market Bill and similar bills shall be passed and we shall have to accustom ourselves for a few more years to the artificial scarcity of the stupid paradoxes which are our present economic system. Unless the western senators get out of hand! TERTIUS...
Manuela is convinced that she cannot be happy in the barrack like institution, and although she is recognized by the girls as a leader, she cannot accustom herself to wearing the sack-like uniform and striped tie, to putting her hair into a knot, and to going through the routine of eating, praying, sleeping, and studying like a hundred other pupils...