Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field events, Jack Cooksey of Winthrop won the discus with a toss of 107 feet, 7 inches. Frank Weller of Adams won the broad jump with a leap of 19 feet, 10 1/2 inches while Greg Stone took first place in the shotput at 51-3. Bob Travis won the only first place for Kirkland by taking the javelin with a throw of 157 feet, 10 inches. Frank Weller also won the high jump at 6 feet, 1 3/4 inches a new record in house competition...
...Reverend W. H. Workman, added two more victories to his collection, setting a record of 1:55.6 in the half-mile and winning the American-sized distance race, the two-mile. J. S. Spraker of Yale also scored a double win, taking the high jump at a record 6 feet, 1 1/2 inches, and the broad jump. Boal again won the hammer, while O-C won the mile, and H-Y the 100, 440, and hurdles...
...Shevlin (Y) broke the hammer record with a heave of 152 feet, 8 inches, and H. W. Gregson set another when he won the mile in 4:21.2. W. A. Schick became the first of eight Crimson runners to share the existing Harvard 100-yard dash mark, when...
When disaster causes the familiar ground to shudder beneath the feet of a child, a neurotic is sometimes born, or a writer, and often both. Mary McCarthy became a writer. Now 44 and looking down at the fallen arches of the years, Novelist-Essayist McCarthy has told some true tales about herself which on other lips might be mistaken for nostalgic prattle. The wary reader might also be scared by the admission that some of these stories have appeared in The New Yorker-which specializes in such stuff to the point where its pages are as snarled up with...
...Crimson showed signs of making the game close when it scored two quick goals at the start of the third quarter. Dick Pille tallied from about 10 feet out on a pass from Dub Mallonee, who scored himself two minutes later, working through about three Yale defensemen to the Eli goal...