Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less melancholy side of the ledger, Jack Fisher came within less than 2 feet of the Harvard hammer throw record to win the event quite easily with a throw of 168 feet 2 inches. Willo Fisher took second with 157 feet 1/2 inch...
...presented with an ultimatum," wrote the Sultan of Kedah-one of five who had risen to power since the Jap invasion-"and in the event of my refusal to sign what I call the Instrument of Surrender, a successor who would sign would be appointed...
...Matt Winn, has upped the stakes from $75,000 to $100,000. But it is not the stakes alone that make the Derby indisputably the U.S. turf classic. Out-of-towners will blow about $8 million in Louisville this week-yet somehow the Derby manages to be the one event in the year when horse racing is least of all big business, and most of all sport. The Derby is Kentucky's great...
...Colonial Theatre, where, after a brief word of explanation to the baffled audience as to the nature of the Ibis and the Harvard Lampoon, Blackstone produced the mounted creature from an empty box. The magician's call for photographers indicated that the press had been tipped off to the event...
...last event of the afternoon, the javelin throw, was held behind the base ball stands. On his last try, the Crusaders' John Connolly committed a heave of 163 feet 11 1/2 inches to give Holy Cross its second win of the day. The Crimson ace, Joe Holbrook took second with 160 feet 5 1/2 inches. Kaebler of Harvard threw the spear 157:9. Hanna, of the Rams took fourth...