Word: event
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Felton didn't break any window at Briggs Cago yesterday afternoon but his toss of 56 feet, 3 3/8 inches in special AAU open 35-pound weight throw was the goe-whiz performance of the four-event AAU track meet...
Felton, a member of the New York Athletic Association, was ineligible for the New England weight throw. Now a student at the Business School, Sam tried in the special weight event to break Niles Perkins' world record of 58 feet, 7 1/2 inches...
...Harvard entries will compete in the New England Amateur Athletic Association pole vault, broad jump, and 35-pound weight throw this afternoon at Briggs Cage, but Sam Felton, last year's varsity record-breaker, will be on the bring line in the weight event. The three events will start...
...second decisive event came when he decided to invent, for use in short stories, a scientific method of crime detection based on the deduction-by-observation habits of Professor Bell. He sketched out a short novel called A Tangled Skein, involving a detective named Sherrinford Holmes and a narrator named Ormond Sacker. Finally, because it sounded better, he changed Sherrinford to Sherlock, and Ormond Sacker to the simpler name of Dr. John Watson. He changed the story's title to A Study in Scarlet. Publishers Ward, Locke & Co. bought it outright (for ?25) and published it in their Christmas...
...yard dash, the only other event in which the track team participated, Jon Spivak was nosed out in the semi-finals...