Word: berst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strim ming-And di ra quets red gler, bams berst...
...Strongman Frank Berst of the New York Athletic Club: the weight-throwing championship of the Amateur Athletic Union; heaving the 56-lb. weight 39 ft., 3¼ in. to burst the Amateur record set by mighty Pat McDonald back in 1911; at New York City's Triborough Stadium. Only other record-breaking performer among the 360 senior track & fieldmen was San Francisco's Cornelius Warmerdam, first and only pole vaulter ever to clear 15 ft. (he has done it 26 times). Though his best vault of the day was five inches under his world's record...