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...Crimson strength in the field events that swung the balance, for, although Don MacKinnon came up with a fine performance in taking the high hurdles, Yale had four of the five individual firsts, and four of the individual seconds. However, Crimson victories in both relays clinched the meet. In the last event, which was the two-mile relay, the Harvard captain, Bob Houghton, running anchor, stretched a four-foot lead into a 25-foot one to win the meet for his team. Bill Palson, Dave Matlock, Ward Slingerland teamed up with him to set a new cage and meet record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Scores upset Over Powerful Wli, Defeating Yale 52-48 As Seven Records Fall | 2/24/1942 | See Source »

...score to date: twelve single-handed rescues, 44 assists). Playing pool one night, John heard the crash of a bomb, looking out of the billiard parlor saw a paint factory down the street go up in a stinking inferno of flames and fumes. With four policemen John dug into the basement, slithered through a four-foot flood of paint, dodged arcing electric wires. On doors they hauled ten workmen into the street, six alive. As they were carrying the last one away the building shuddered and fell. Then John Thomas Cain went to a pub and had a beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Billiards, Bombs, Beer | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...most popular educational shows at the New York World's Fair is the Medicine & Public Health exhibit. In the shadowy Hall of Man stand countless glorifications of the human body-a swaying four-foot ear, a talking skeleton, a mechanical biceps, a huge plaster brain studded with push buttons. Through the Hall echoes the muffled beat of an invisible, mechanical heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vital Statistician | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...stormy night last week John Seed, still strapped in his cast, tried again. This time he went in by a door, climbed a ladder to the belfry, there pried open a locked door with a four-foot crowbar. With two companions he tugged at the clapper for half an hour, at length pulled it loose. Next day he proudly confessed his theft. Crushed, the university waived its $30 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys Will Be Boys | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...putts. Hovering over their balls were U. S. Open Champion Byron Nelson and smiling Jimmy Demaret. Nelson was away. He tapped his ball, sent it into the cup for a birdie 3, a two-under-par 69 and a 54-hole total of 212. Demaret had to sink his four-foot putt to win the tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jimmy | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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