Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred Nygard, an experienced crane operator, related how he joined the union last April. A few days later he took two application cards to work with him in his cap. While mopping his brow, the cards fluttered down 40 ft. from his crane to the floor. One he managed to retrieve but the other was picked up by a fellow worker. Five days later the foreman fired him, saying: "I guess you don't want to work here...
...Oxford-Cambridge team proved unusually well-balanced. Relying on both team "Presidents" (captains), Alan Pennington (Oxford) and Godfrey Brown (Cambridge), for double wins, the Britishers had unbeatable talent on the track except in the hurdles. In the field they boasted a Turk who could shot-put 49 ft., a high-jumper who could clear 6 ft. 3 in., and Frederick Richard Webster, first Briton ever to pole-vault 13 ft., who got-his vaulting tips by corresponding with U. S. experts. At Cambridge, Mass, last fortnight Oxford-Cambridge swept the flat races as anticipated, added a victory in the shot...
...supremacy in the field as well. In the high jump and shot put Cambridge's Robert Kirk Inches Kennedy and Ali Irfan of Istanbul set new meet records. And Cambridge's Webster topped Princeton's Standish Medina, suffering from a pulled leg muscle, with a 13-ft. pole-vault. Though President Pennington took the 100 and 220-yd. sprints handily and President Brown breezed to victory in the quarter mile, these three victories in the field > proved invaluable when Princeton-Cornell proceeded to win both the mile and two-mile runs to bring their total to five...
...Indio, Calif., when F. A. Purcell and E. J. Grace decided to duel, their seconds selected overripe tomatoes for three minutes at 30 ft...
...Coffee, Miss., R. J. Knight exhibited a 7-ft., 198-lb. sturgeon, produced six witnesses who swore that after the fish had broken several trotlines, Fisherman Knight had hooked it, two of his companions had ridden it to shore, a third had shot it dead with a rifle...