Word: javelins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formidable Democratic opponent is the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who succeeded his father as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Its 10,173 members are reportedly the largest Protestant congregation in the U.S. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and young (35), Adam Powell has been successively a javelin thrower at Colgate University, a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, a New York City councilman. He has also led several Harlem picketlines, and edits an aggressive tabloid, The People's Voice. Handsome in a gates-ajar collar, Powell makes a hell-raising speech, likes to kiss...
...Example. As the 5-ft.-10-in. "runt" in a family of six-footers, Ted Timberlake took plenty of lumps growing up. Pat was his special idol in athletics. Because Pat had been a javelin thrower, Ted manfully tossed the steel-tipped spear around. Pat had been a star blocking back. Ted played one season, lost another with injuries, wound up warming the bench...
After the meet, Thomas C. Hoyloke '44, of Winthrop House and Milwaukee, Wis., was elected captain of the squad, succeeding J. Donald MacKinnon, Jr. Holyoke is the Crimson's ace broad-jumper, and also threw the javelin this year...
...Javelin--Won by Coulson (A); second, Lion (H); third, Bigwood (A). Distance...
...Javelin throw--Won by Washburn (E); second, Lion (H); third, Waugh. Distance...