Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pole vault with a jump of 13 ft., set out to better the intercollegiate record of 13 ft. 1 in. set by Robert A. Gardner* in 1912.† He asked to have the bar put at 13-2, measured his takeoff, dashed down the runway, shot high in air, fell over into the pit. Ted Meredith stood up shouting. A record had fallen. But, as the crowd roared-as Sherrill, resting in the soft turf, looked up at the space over which he had leaped, the bar toppled, fell over...
...Silence fell, to be punctuated now and again by an encouraging cheer. Binocularless women plagued their staring escorts for information. There were some eager "Yesses" and some hesitant "No-o-oes." Excitement grew as the thunder of hoofs approached. Manna romped home the winner and, as usual, there were more white than flushed faces; for rarely does a Derby favorite romp fast enough...
...named Thompson who had never before got beyond the first round. It was Douglas Grant, U.S. resident in Britain, who put out wethered; but Grant in turn was beaten by R. W. Crummack, Lancashire champion. Bombardier Wells, British boxer, qualified for the tournament, won twice before he fell. Cruikshank, Britisher from the Argentine, was eliminated; only Robert Harris of Scotland, Captain of the British Golf team that opposed the U. S. in 1922 and 1923, was left to face K. F. Fradgely who, weakened by a recent illness, unnerved by losing four of the first five holes, went to pieces...
...always tried to be a legal nation ever since Edmund Burke told them that they were such, and so public opinion criticised the Methodist tribunals for not having a consistent body of Canon Law to guide their decisions in the varied cases which came before them. Therefore the institution fell into discredit and received the contemptuous nickname of Ku Klux Klan, a corruption of an old wrestling term "Catch-as-catch...
...Whitbeck of Loomis, who won the individual title last year, but whose chances of repeating were discounted by an injury to his shoulder, managed to reach the semi-final round in which he fell before Johnson...