Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team will be handicapped this year in its jumping practice as their former practice jump at Middlesex school blew down in the hurricane last September...
...chemistry and physics departments of Peiping universities. They explained their technique to the correspondent. "It's like a game of chess. Our opponent is the Japanese army engineer. He tries to checkmate every move we make in wrecking his trains, but thus far we have kept one jump ahead." The erstwhile professors admitted they had copied Lawrence's method of train wrecking-setting off an explosive charge under the rails as a train passed over-until they ran out of explosives. Then they used a cheaper method-pulling out the inner rail spikes, especially at spots where...
...Yardling group is very shorthanded this season. Men are really in demand for the pole-vault, hammer, and javelin, and in the hurdles, broad and high-jump. Let me say again that beginners and little-experienced men are more than welcome to come down to make a try at any sport...
Coach Bill Neufeld, adding comments on the Varsity squad, told of the need of tracksters in the somewhat weak events as the hammer-throw, broad-jump, pole-vault and the sprints. Discus and javelin were also mentioned as being able to use several...
Returning in the high-jump are Robert Haydock, Jr. '39, track captain, Irving S. Michelman '39, and Guilliaem Aertsen, 3d. '40; pole-vault, Frederick M. McIsaac '40; shot-put, Howard P. Mendel '40; and George A. Downing '40; javelin, Fulton L. Cahners '39; hammer, William J. Shallow '40. There are no lettermen in the sprints or half-mile...