Word: feet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lieutenant O'Brien, who fell 8,000 feet with his airplane into the German lines, was captured and held for some time in a German prison camp. The story of his escape, which was effected by jumping through a train window and working for 72 days towards the frontier, is perhaps the most extraordinary personal experience...
...first-string men back this spring and among them such stars as C. R. Erdmann, who recently equalled the world's record by running the 45-yard high hurdles in six seconds flat, and S. P. Sinclaire, who broke the record by putting the 12-pound shot 51 feet 9 7-8 inches at Philadelphia on March...
Step into any lecture room toward the close of an hour and observe an occurrence which is not uncommon, but which is quite characteristic of the American student. The professor is completing his lecture. Immediately there arises a noise of shuffling feet, of closing note-books, and of clattering tablets as each student prepares to leave the hall. The closing words are a meaningless jumble lost in the general disorder. The students rush out; the professor resignedly gathers up his notes and joins the crowded mass at the door...
Among the events in which informal and Freshman track athletes were entered the only University representative to place was C. G. Krogness '21, who with a leap of five feet eight inches was second in the running high jump. Pelletier of Camp Devens was first with a margin of-two inches, while Roberts of the Radio School was third with a jump of two inches less than that of Krogness...
...spring athletics at the University. In a conversation with a CRIMSON reporter last night Dean Briggs said: "We do not wish it to be thought that we regret our attitude toward football last fall. Not at all. But now that the R. O. T. C. is firmly on its feet, I think that a somewhat formal system of athletics may once more be employed...