Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magazine) and about ten contributors of occasional pieces. In order to get out the magazine at all every one had to work seven days a week. On Sundays pencils flourished with particular vigor so that the staff could keep warm, since there was no heat in the building...
Other Harvard performers did reasonably well. Frederick McIsaac '40 cleared 13 feet in the pole vault. Mason Fernald, out all week with a cold looked well in the hurdle semi-finals, though not graduating to the final heat...
...seconds for 15 years. Famed sprinters like Jesse Owens, Eddie Tolan, Ralph Metcalfe have tried but failed to break it. But last week astonished spectators saw Benjamin Washington Johnson of Columbia, a little Negro who is long on medals but short on publicity, register three lightning flashes: the first heat in 6.2 sec., the semi-final in 6.1, the final in 6 seconds flat. To little Ben Johnson went the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy for the outstanding performance of the meet (Millrose Games) and round-the-world acclaim as the world's fastest human...
Four Harvard hurdlers competed in their event Saturday night. Roger Schafer '41, and Sherman Hoar '40 were put out in their trial heats running against intercollegiate champion Jack Donovan and world champion Sam Allen respectively. Mason Fernald '40 was second in his trial heat, and was put out in the first heat of the semi-finals, but likewise failed to service the semi-finals. In the finals Olympic winner Forest (Spect) by Donovan of Dartmouth. Big disappointment of this event was Sam Allen, last in the finals...
Sparks Sorlien cased through his trial heat in the 300 to make a qualifying second place, and in the finals he came in third, Hobart Lerner '40 felt as he rounded the first turn in his trial heat, Gaining his feet he raced on barely to be nipped at the tape for the qualifying second place position...