Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soared until 5:22 p. m. In the air they shivered, ate peanuts, chatted with each other and with the pilots of other craft sailing about near them. Last week Transporter set a world record for two-place gliders with an altitude of 5,967 ft...
...Pilot Emerson Mehlhose of Wyandotte, Mich., won the $500 Du Pont prize, with an altitude of 6,516 ft., beating the U. S. record set by Richard du Pont in 1934. Pilot Don Stevens had himself towed up to 18,000 ft. by a plane, looped 93 times on the way down, a U. S. record. When the meet was over, gliders and sail planes had soared a total of 321 hours. 1,178 miles in 274 flights. U. S. champion was Chester Decker (295 points). Second with 288 was Richard du Pont, last year's champion...
...metre championship run. Suddenly a tiny group intent on the pole vault let out a roar. What had happened, spectator asked spectator? A husky, blond San Franciscan by the name of George Varoff, they learned, had just twisted over the bar at the incredible height of 14 ft., 6½ in. By the time the crowd leaned back again on Palmer Stadium's uncomfortable cement seats, the 1,.500-metre race was over. First, in the mediocre time of 3:54.2, was Kansas' Glenn Cunningham. Second was another Kansan, Archie San Romani. Venzke and Bonthron trailed...
...great notice as a San Francisco schoolboy-vaulter, none at all as a University of Oregon freshman. Flunked from college, he became a janitor in San Francisco, entered the semi-final Olympic tryouts in Los Angeles last fortnight, for the first time in his life cleared 14 ft. Fearful of losing his janitor's job, George Varoff had needed much persuasion to junket to Princeton...
...University of Southern California's big-boned Harold Smallwood nosed out California's much-touted quarter-milers, Negroes James LuValle and Archie Williams, in the 400-metre race. ¶ Negro Cornelius Johnson who arrived one hour late for the high jump, found the bar at 6 ft., 7 in. Taking no time to practice, he zoomed over it with ease, went on to win a triple jump-off at 6 ft...