Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a grinning, 19-year-old Norwegian named Torger Tokle landed in Manhattan two years ago, he was met by his older brother, Kyrre, who drove him to his farm in Noroton, Conn. Next day, Brother Kyrre was to compete in a ski-jumping meet at nearby Bear Mountain Park. "I yump too," said Torger. Yump he did-and broke the hill record...
...England jumpers, Torger Tokle was a deep discouragement. Jumping is judged on form as well as distance, but Tokle's tremendous, unpolished power won practically every meet he entered. In four successive Bear Mountain meets, he broke his own hill record, stretching it from 157 ft. to 163 ft. In his first year in the U. S., towheaded Torger Tokle won 15 out of 16 tournaments, broke nine hill records...
...become America's favorite snow bird. Ten days ago, in a meet at Leavenworth, Wash., he soared 273 ft., longest jump ever recorded in North American competition. Then he flew back to New York to compete three days later in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Cup meet at Bear Mountain, his first and favorite hill. Most Norwegians frown on skyscraping ski jumps built for headlines rather than for sport-like that at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, where jumpers have leaped 300 ft. The Bear Mountain ski jump is just a sporting little hill, constructed for jumps no longer...
This was not completely silly. Megalonyx jeffersoni is so recent that its bones sometimes bear wisps of hair. Paleontologist Patterson thinks that cave men helped to exterminate the creatures though "an embrace from a sloth would have made a bear's hug look like child's play." In expecting to bag a Megalonyx, Jefferson was not "wrong by more than a few thousand years." As bone-diggers measure time, this was only day before yesterday...
Something of a prophetic Voice in 1929, Fearing sounds more like a shavetail Jeremiah today. But there is an honor in these Collected Poems that is honor still. The Biblical and Whitmanesque views of life, which are in Fearing's blood as well as in his style, can bear repetition. As long, at least, as Tom, Dick & Harry are free to guess that human life, in their quarter of the planet, is far less decent than it has the inalienable right, and the bounden obligation, to be. Fearing's book, in spite of its often bombastic bitterness...