Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team and Andover were beaten 21-13 and 25-20 the week before the Yale game, the team nearing the peak of its development by this time. Carefully directed by Coach Chase, the players were kept in the best of condition and the team was at the height of its power when it faced Yale on Saturday. Although Yale piled up a lead of seven points in the first few minutes of the game, the Crimson team came back to tie the score before the end of the half and with a final rally, spurted past the Yale team...
...strike of the Railroad Shopmen seems to be a hardy perennial. Since its height last summer it has gradually faded from public notice. But a letter written by President Harding to the leader of the shopmen of the Jersey Central Railroad reveals the fact that some 40% of the men are still " out" in various parts of the country...
...protest against a reduction of $24,500,000 in next year's budget for military expenditure, General Kenichi Oshima, addressing the House of Peers, said that it was "the height of folly to imagine that the cutting of armaments would ensure peace. World peace is best maintained when nations are armed to the hilt! " His explosion will not, however, affect the departmental estimates...
...surprise was offered in the high jump when H. T. Dunker '25, with an allowance of 6 inches, won first place with a total height of 5 feet 11 inches. Second place went to H. R. Davis '23, one of the University pole vaulters, handicapped at 5 inches, with a net jump of 5 feet 10 inches. Charles Jenney Jr. '26, with a 4 inch handicap, and W. D. Mogey '26, with 10 inches, were tied at 5 feet 9 inches for third place, the former winning the jump...
...final event of the afternoon, the pole vault, was won by J. D. Martindale, who had a handicap of 8 inches, with a net height of 11 feet 5 inches. With one inch less, L. O. Combs '26, allowance 16 inches., gained second place, a tie for third place resulting when D. D. Reidy Jr. '23, with a 6 inch handicap, and W. T. Reidy '25, with 18 inches, both had a net height of 11 feet. The former won the toss...