Word: hoisting
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...toppers, and a third in the broad-jump. Gordy Lyle established himself as the top dash man, with an excellent fourth lap of the sprint relay, and a tie for second in the 220, while Steve Brooks snapped out of his recent slump with a 12 foot 6 inch hoist in the pole vault. Had the Crimson's Mike Ford been leaping, the home forces might have gathered more than one first place, chalked up when Jack Jackson tossed the javelin 169 feet, 5 1/4 inches, beating "Hersky" Herskovitz by six feet...
...Last week Editor Déat lectured at Tours. Someone threw a sputtering missile at him. After it had bounced off his coat, he snuffed out its fuse. German newspapers said it was a bomb, French that it was only a pétard (firecracker), not powerful enough to hoist hefty Editor...
Then at the IC4A games recently, he took a second to the renowned Rich Moreum of New Hampshire a one-man field events team, bettering his own old hoist by 1-2 inch...
With the new poles, Crimson vaulters will be able to grasp the weapon further up, and will thus get more distance and hoist out of the bamboo rods...
...Japanese had tried on numerous occasions to wipe out the guerrillas," Gardener revealed, "but no matter how many times they were beaten, the Chinese always came back. They seriously upset mining on numerous occasions by sneaking up to the mines, overpowering the guards, and smashing the pump and hoist machinery. Japanese miners were killed wholesale underground when the mines filled with water...