Word: hoisted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Andy Lockett and Bill Lawrence go down the runway in the pole vault, they will have to hoist themselves higher than Pete Harwood, among other people. Harwood, at present a student at the Business School, won the IC4A pole vault championship in 1946 with a 13 foot, 10 inch jump...
Best performances of the afternoon came in the exhibition pole vault and weight throw. In the former, Olympic vaulter A. Richmond (Boo) Morcom beat out Harvard's 1946 IC4A champion Pete Harwood with a hoist of 14 feet. "The barefoot boy from New Hampshire" was invited to come here by Sam Felton, who took time out from his studies at the Business School to heave the 35-pound weight 54 feet, 11 3/4 inches...
...trend toward realism in toys may amaze some parents. For boys, there is a service station whose lubricating-hoist, air-hose and gasoline pump really work. For girls, there is an electric vacuum sweeper that sweeps, and scores of stuffed animals and dolls that demonstrate one or another fact of life. There are hens that lay and pregnant dogs and rabbits whose offspring tumble out of zippered stomachs. There are dolls that coo when patted and cry when spanked and eat crackers (removable from a hole in the neck). There is even one which blows bubbles and, if "burped" like...
...patients call [him] 'God'-and partly mean it" [TIME, Sept. 27]? I have known Sir Archibald since I crashed in flames in 1941, and have been under his chopper 32 times ... I have never heard him spoken of as God ... If your correspondent (may he be hoist by his own typewriter) had said that Sir Archie was known to the boys as "The Boss," "Maestro," "Mac," or merely "The Big White Chief," then he would have been guilty of complete accuracy. Thanks for the write-up, all the same . . . HENRY STANDEN Sussex, England
...Petard. If the Republicans needed any more petards to hoist Harry Truman, they had one in ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles. He agreed that the Administration's plan for increasing bank reserves was one way to check inflationary credit. It was a scheme which he had suggested himself last fall and which the President had then ignored. As for the rest of the President's program, such proposals as the long-range housing program would only force inflationary pressures even higher. Said Eccles: "It's like try ing to fill up the bathtub with the stopper...