Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is no need to compare the picture with Gershwin's juicy musical; it will fall on its own feet. The most that can be said for "The Senator" is that it has its moments, but its moments are always isolated gags, such as one of the senator's posters announcing that he is "against inflation, against deflation, for flatiron." There is a fair number of gags, and almost all are funny, but there lies between them a dull story with dull people doing dull things. The greater part of the whole story unwinds in a single hotel room, where...
...pole vault, with three men capable of 13 feet or so, is possibly the Crimson's strongest single event except for the 35-pound weight. Bud Lockett, of New Orleans, Bill Lawrence, and Owen Torrey, whose broken leg has mended, form the Varsity vaulting triumvirate...
Elsewhere in the field events, the team is pretty much skin deep-one good man in each event. With Tootell on disciplinary probation, Don Trimble will get whatever points the Crimson manufactures in the shot. He hit 47 feet at West Point...
Gene Harrigan gets up around six feet in the high jump, and in the broad jump Harvey Thayer appears to have established himself...
...done it again. For the third time this winter, Sam Felton has broken his own Briggs Cage 35-pound weight throw record. He did it Saturday in an informal meet with Boston University and Northeastern by lobbing the iron ball 57 feet, 11/2 inches. The world's record is 58 feet, 71/2 inches...