Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia last week, Temple University's Track Coach Ben Ogden proposed an innovation to enable pole-vaulters to avoid "jarring their nervous system when they land on the ground": a net, like those used by circus trapezists, stretched seven feet above the ground, to catch them on the way down...
...drivers of logs. About 200 of them had drifted in from points north and north-west where log driving is still an annual affair. They had what the Scandinavians call "snus" (pinches of snuff) in their lower lips, steel on their feet and names like "The Beaver," "Big. Ben" and "Dirty Dan" to awe less colorful citizens...
...happen to a track meet. Stars may dip below the horizon for a brief period or for over, others may appear from nowhere to shine in all their brilliance for a week, only to fade back into oblivion. And so it was Saturday. Among the upsets was Columbia's Ben Johnson who was dethroned in the hundred, and failed to even qualify in the broad jump. Johnson's poor performance has been laid by some to a mental condition imposed upon him by the memory of a torn muscle acquired on the same track a year...
...Ben Johnson is favored to take the 100. His 9.8 in the Metropolitan Intercollegiates last Friday is just two-tenths of a second better than King of Dartmouth, and Millett of Yale have done thus far this season. Not so easy will he find the 220 and the broad-jump, however, for Millett has done 21.4 against Columbia's 21.6, and Ethridge of Yale creates a threat by his 21 ft., 4 in. jump of last weekend...
...long, 1¾ mi. wide), bisects the Highlands from Inverness on the northeast to Fort Augustus- on the southwest. Near its narrow shores are many a Highland distillery, many towns and glens intimately connected with haberdashery: Inverness (tweed capes), Glen Urquhart (gents' suitings), Glen Garry (highland bonnets). Ben Nevis, best publicized mountain in Scotland, is only 30 mi. to the southwest. In August 1933 when workmen were blasting a new motor road along the west shore of the lake, the monster was first "seen." Eyewitnesses during the following season ranged from hard-bitten big game hunters to impressionable lady...