Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latter year, he proved his versatility in both the shot put and the broad jump. One of his most spectacular triumphs was in the thirty-fourth I. C. A. A. A. A. meet held in the Stadium in 1909 when he had to heave the shot 46 feet 6 1-4 inches to defeat W. F. Krueger of Swarthmore and J. J. Horner of Michigan. Horner who finished third is himself one of the spectacular weight men of Michigan track history. He later established I. C. A. A. A. A. records in the shot put event. Now, as head...
...shocks were the first ones of distinct strength recorded in the seismograph in recent weeks. The needle began to record its jagged lines about 12.30 o'clock, and for two hours its agitation continued. Three main wave trains shook the shaft that penetrates the earth many feet below the recording instruments. The first one was written-out a few minutes after 1 o'clock, and the others followed during the next ten minutes. At a late hour yesterday afternoon the disturbances had not been definitely placed...
...Pratt '28. The pole vault promises to be a close fight between F. B. Clark '28, B. G. Burbank '28, and Prout, Michigan's veteran. F. T. Burgess '30, Harvard's only entry in the high jump, will have to outdo Waldo, who has cleared 5 feet, 10 5-8 inches to take second in the recent Big Ten meet...
...Klux Klan is sure that Smith's foreign policy would be to deliver the United States into the hands of Rome. There are other observers who cite Smith's refusal to be swept off his feet in the post-war Bolshevist hysteria as proof that if he were elected President he would show foresight liberality, and cool-headedness in his foreign policy, that he would leave this department of the Government largely in the hands of his advisers...
...long before his time. This ingenious concocter of a better class of dime novels furnished vicarious thrills by mere inherited dukedoms and paltry thousands of dollars--and no doubt shuddered to think what an exaggerator he was. But the Luke Larkins of his fiction are simply run off their feet by the financial leaders of this...