Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regular New England AAU competition, Boo Morcom, "the barefoot boy from New Hampshire," won the pole vault championship with a hoist of 14 feet; Rudy Forbert, a barrel-chested Tufts junior, took the broad jump at 21 feet, 6 1/3 inches; and Olympic hammer thrower Bob Bennett won the regular 35-pound weight throw with a loft of 52 feet, 1 7/3 inches...
...freshmen will get the jump on spring term social activities Saturday with a "Cupid's Caper" dance. Valentine's Day provides the motif for the weekend festivities and an excuse to crown a "Valentine Queen of the Dance." Four '52 men who organized themselves into a barbershop quartet for the Yale dance will perform again Saturday...
...Harvard entries will compete in the New England Amateur Athletic Association pole vault, broad jump, and 35-pound weight throw this afternoon at Briggs Cage, but Sam Felton, last year's varsity record-breaker, will be on the bring line in the weight event. The three events will start...
...team lineups: Downhill: Abbott, Taylor, Griffin, Genn, Slalom: Genn, Abbott, Nordblom, Taylor. Combined: Genn, Abbott, Taylor, Griffin. Cross-Country: Nordblom, Lund, Hunt, Taylor. Jump: Taylor, Griffin, Wise, Genn. Combined: Taylor, Hunt, Nordblom, Wise...
...father, in front of a group of guests, denounced him as lazy and useless. This meant a terrible loss of face for young Mao. He ran out of the house, his father in hot pursuit. Young Mao reached the edge of a pond and threatened to jump in if his father came any nearer. "Demands and counter-demands were presented for cessation of the civil war," Mao recalled. "My father insisted that I apologize and kowtow . . . I agreed to give a one-knee kowtow if he would promise not to beat me. Thus the war ended, and from...