Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people this week it was the time of the Hanami (flower viewing). The Japanese left their wretched, paper-thin houses and their half-ruined factories; chattering with delight, they roamed across the broad lawns of their public gardens to view the flowers of spring. City folk flocked to the beaches. Up & down the jagged, black-sanded coast, fishermen pushed off their squat wooden boats. Farmers tirelessly slushed through their rice fields as they had always done...
Other Harvard entries who might win their events are pole vaulter Bill Lawrence, broad jumper Dave Carter, high jumper Gene Harrigan, and half-miler Al Ruby. John Thorndike, Tom Cameron, Don Trimble and Howie Reed will give Tootell plenty of help in the weights...
Bill Gelck, recently elected captain of the team, is a Jack of all jumps. The Crimson's top high Jumper, he combines with Jim McLaughlin to form an effective broad jumping team. Both Gelck and McLaughlin also support Durakis in the hurdles. Not content with these events, Geick likes to dabble in the pole vault...
Slowdown by Noon. "On broad, dusty Chungshan Lu, Nanking's main street, a pretty Chinese girl, trim in a white sweater, cycled by, said good-morning in perfect English, and serenely rode...
...captain, Bob Mello, who took firsts in the pole vault, javelin, broad jump, and high jump, Exeter held an edge during most of the afternoon...