Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basis of its showing Saturday at Princeton, the British team figures to make Monday's meet close. Oxford-Cambridge took the 100, 220, mile and two-mile against Princeton-Cornell, and showed well in the broad jump...
Construction gangs cut down stately, 40-foot trees along Mexico City's famed Paseo de la Reforma. Bulldozers ripped at the broad islands on which the trees stood, and cranes swung weathered statues from street-side pedestals. Cuauhtémoc himself, last of the Aztec princes, was hauled from his sandstone eminence near the Paseo's intersection with Avenida Insurgentes. In his place, concrete mixers poured new pavements...
Past performance figures (only first places will count in the scoring) give Harvard-Yale an edge in the pole vault, high jump, shot put, 100, mile, 880, and 220 low hurdles; the Britishers appear superior in the 440, 220, broad jump, two mile, and 120 high hurdles. No times are available for speculation on the 440-yard sprint relay...
...Harvard's five entries (Yale has 19), a first place is fairly unlikely. Freshman Bill Geick (broad jump), Charlie Durakis (high hurdles), and Dick Weiskopf (100), and varsity sprinter Harvey Thayer (220) are all number three in their events on the form chart, and John Cogan, the Crimson's other varsity representative, is number four in the two mile...
Another freshman, captain of this year's team, Bill Geick will broad-jump against the English, together with Charlie Haase of Yale. Neither of the Americans has come close to the 22 foot distance that Cambridge star Edwards has been able to jump on several occasions this year...