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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Herrick of the Crimson scored in three field events. First in the discus with 148 ft., he figured in a four way tie in the pole vault, and was third in the shot. Win Pettingell was the other Crimsonite who tied at 12 ft. 4 in. in the vault. Bert Litman was a double winner in the shot put and the javelin. His javelin throw of 192 feet was the best of his career...
...Haydock, who last week set a new Harvard high jump record of 6 ft. 3 1-2 in. tied with Badman of Yale Saturday at 6 ft...
...meet of both the Varsity and Freshmen decide the makeup of the combined Harvard. Yale team to meet Cambridge and Oxford in July, Freshmen were making special efforts to excel. Jim Lightbody qualified with a 49.1 quarter, George Downing also made the grade when he heaved the shot 45 ft. 6 1-4 in., nearly a foot better than the Varsity. Especially notable also was a new Freshman high jump record of 6 ft. 1 5-8 in. set by Harvard's Guill Aertsen...
...them. A storage and assay depot as well as a mint, the new building began last week to receive some $400,000,000 in gold and silver from the smoke-stained old San Francisco mint at Fifth & Mission. The two storage vaults, 48 x 78 and 28 x 52 ft., are equipped with triple-locked doors, wired with microphones so a central guard room hears every sound in the vaults. Trucks enter the mint through an anteroom guarded by a pair of steel portcullis doors of which only one can be open at a time. Corridor corners are mirrored...
...Alaska in winter and spring, everybody talks about the weather and nearly everybody does something about it. Midstream in the ice-locked Tanana River at Nenana, a Government railroad junction, some 60 mi. southwest of Fairbanks, a 25-ft. pole stands upright, frozen fast. "Nenana Ice Pool'' reads a sign that it holds aloft. From the pole a wire runs ashore to the trigger of a time clock. During the early spring, Alaskans pay $1 for a chance to guess the exact day, hour and minute that the ice will move far enough down the Tanana to take...