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Word: discusions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throwing events hold the most interest for future Harvard track stars. Dave Murray is doing exceptionally well with the javelin and John Thorndike is giving the discus long rides on these hot summer afternoons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O'Connor Paces Field As Track Team Holds Its First Time Trials | 7/26/1946 | See Source »

...South since 1914. (The A.A.U. arranged for a special Pullman car to San Antonio, so their Negro contestants would not have to ride in Jim Crow cars.) The only new world's record set at San Antonio: burly ex-Coast Guardsman Bob Fitch of Minnesota hurled the discus 179 ft. ⅛ in., bettering Italian Adolfo Consolini's mark by more than four feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Slow Starting Swede | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...first place winners; Pete Harwood, outstanding New England pole vaulter, who successfully defended the crown he won last year with a vault of 12 feet, 6 inches, and Bill Jackson, whose 47 feet, 5 5/3 inch shot put garnered that event. Jackson also took third place in the discus throw, won by Dartmouth's Sam Felton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Third in N.E. Track Meet | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...from New Haven called Yale. By the simple process of winning 11 of the 15 first places, the Crimson dumped the Blue 81 2/3 to 53 1/3. Bob Clark had an afternoon for himself, winning the 440 and 220, as did Bill Jackson, who copped the shot put and discus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

Against Yale Jackson put the shot 47 feet 101/8 inches, his best mark of the year, and hurled the discus 136 feet 83/4 inches, also his top performance...

Author: By Wallace I. Green, | Title: Crimson Track Squad Sends Eight Men to IC4A Games | 5/25/1946 | See Source »

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