Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-day beat spell drew to a close last night officials of the Metropolitan District Commission warned the huge crowd of students longing by the Charles that a $20 fine awaited anyone with a penchant for a plunge...
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...
Yale stars Jim Fuchs and George Apple are cinches to win their events-the shot and the pole vault. The thigh jump shot prove close. One Britisher is known to have jumped 5 feet, 11 inches, and Yale boasts a pair of freshmen twins who are both able to jump close to 6 feet...
...adventurous outing. From the high school at Popayan 24 miles away, 18 students and a truck driver set off one morning last week to climb the mile-high mountain. Except for two students who got tired and lagged a quarter mile behind, the climbers had no trouble getting close to the top. Just as they opened a bottle of rum to celebrate their easy success, a terrific explosion shook Purac...
...trying to tinker with the Grable formula, Director Sturges comes perilously close to forgetting the Grable form. Betty sings only a couple of songs, gets no chance to dance at all, and gives only two rather fleeting leg shows, once in an old-fashioned Pullman berth and again in the midst of a gunfight. A Sturges experiment is always worth watching, but most moviegoers would probably have settled for more Grable and fewer gags...