Word: indoors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Butchers, bakers and candlestick makers, waiters, tailors and candy-store clerks must beware their teeth. So said German scientist K. F. Hoffman last week. Indoor work tends to wear down bodily resistance. Poor ventilation helps teeth decay; dusts discolor teeth; sugar and flour ferment to form enamel-destroying acids...
Pole Vault. Last week in Boston a young man paced away from a horizontal stick, set 13 ft. 7⅛ in. from the floor. Turning he rushed, planted a spiked pole, and released all available springs. Sabin Carr of Yale had set a new mark for indoor pole-vaulters to shoot at. He had come within ⅞ in. of Charles Hoff's supreme effort-which did not count because Mr. Hoff is a professional. Bluebird. In a Bluebird on the Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales, Capt. Malcolm Campbell broke the world's automobile record for a kilometre...
Swim. Muscular women in snug suits swam lustily at the Women's National A. A. U. indoor championships in Buffalo last week. Three of them broke four world's records: Agnes Geraghty went through 220 yards of water in 3 min. 20 sec.; Adelaide Lambert swam 300 yards in 4 min., 34.4 sec.; Martha Norelius swam 400 yards in 5 min., 14 sec.; 500 yards...
...aeries of playing fields opposite Soldiers Field is a first step promising well for future activity in the same direction. Final action is, of course, subject to the approval of the Corporation, but that, in this case, may fairly be assumed a fore gone conclusion. Indoor athletic facilities are, however, in even greater need of improvement and extension. May the energy of Mr. Bingham, for instance, materialize in the near future the often rumored but at present highly intangible new gymnasium and swimming pool and swimming the means to sustain the spirit of "Athletics...
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...