Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film then gains its merit from sheer movement and color and makes its myth come momentarily true in the abstract as if it were an opera and not a supposed documentation of an historical event. The Turks are all red-fezzed ogres, the common soldier and the people's general win the war for their oppressed brethren, and the Tzarist general staff is composed of dunderheads and tools of women. Bullets cannot touch the heroic leader, and his heroic troops stem the Turkish hordes by hurling rocks and corpses. A Bulgarian captive breaks away from his captors and, standing silhouetted...
...high jump event John deKiewiet did not place, but cleared six feet, two inches. Jack Murphy, another Crimson jumper went out at six feet...
Landau took third in the hurdles event, Anderson was fifth in the Bishop Cheverus 1000-yard run, and the varsity two-mile relay team put up a strong fight before losing out to Yale. The remainder of the Crimson entrants won little glory, but performed respectably and doubtless profited from the experience of competing against some of the world's finest athletes...
Hank Wente leaped 21 feet, eight inches to gain a third in the broad jump competition, held in the afternoon. Weightmen John DuMoulin and Jim Doty both did fifty-four feet in their event, but could not make the finals against the likes of Olympic champ Hal Connolly and several other fine performers
Summing up, the President says: "The times, then, seem to me to call not for a violent new national effort in a single direction (which in any event we are ill-prepared to take) but rather for a more consistent, steady, concern for the whole of education...