Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cornelius ("Dutch") Warmerdam, a Piedmont, Calif, schoolteacher with a catlike spring in his legs. The world's only 15-ft. pole vaulter, Warmerdam has soared to that height or more 27 times in the past three years, has made fans expect a new record every time he grips bamboo. Last week the Flying Dutchman worked into the groove, nearly reaching the mezzanine with each leap. But the best he could do was 15 ft. 1½ in.-a new Garden record, but 6¼ inches under his own world's record...
...young Tasmanian signalman named Joe Loveless went to work. The force settled in bamboo huts, watched the sun rise and fall, played cards, taught natives to sing Lambeth Walk and Lead, Kindly Light...
...April 15 Joe Loveless came up with a weird machine in a four-gallon kerosene tin. It had been assembled from parts of a weak transmitter, a native's receiver and a few pieces of wire, put together with a bamboo soldering stick. But it worked. Joe Loveless called Darwin...
Their most embarrassing lack, for a time, was paper. They had to use cigaret papers, bamboo bark and banana leaves. Then one day the considerate Japanese showered their bivouac with printed broadsides demanding surrender. The Sparrows were grateful...
...girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...