Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News competition is conducted on a point basis, twice as much credit being given per inch of "scooped" news as per inch of assigned news...
Hollis broke the University indoor high jump record with a six foot two inch jump. E. V. Renouf '28, with a three inch handicap, took second honors when he cleared the bar at five feet ten inches...
...bloated horse is tied there and bloody scraps are sent floating out to sea. Usually it is hours before a long shape, bronze in the bright blue water, moves slowly in over the bar. Other slow shapes follow, circling the buoy cautiously. Chunks of "proud" beef, on six-inch hooks, chain leaders and lines like halyards, wait for them on the bottom-usually wait for hours. . . . In the garden of a Nassau hotel there used to be the jaws of a hammerhead shark, with a placard: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." A more appropriate exhibit would have been...
...pole vault, the Crimson entrants, Clark and Burbank, failed to place, but they were up against highly unusual competition. The vault was won by Harrington of the B. A. A., who broke the meet record with a leap of 13 feet and fiveeighths of an inch. Myers, formerly of Dartmouth, and Sherrill of Pennsylvania, also cleared more than twelve feet...
...bright star arose in the form of Scott who, checking Lawless near the Crimson cage, seized the puck, dashed up the right lane and eluding Gibson and Captain Viano, gained the mouth of the B. U. cage. His high shot which found the Terrier net less than an inch from the post, was the only one that got by Silverberg during the evening...