Word: jumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yard race R. G. Luttmann '28 was barely nosed out by the well-timed sprint of Hazzard, the Andover distance man. W. P. Pratt '28 and E. P. Renouf '28 starred for the Crimson in the field events by winning the shot-put and the high jump respectively. Thanks to O'Neil's remarkable burst of speed in the last lap, the Harvard first year men won the relay by an eight-yard margin...
News in the steel industry has improved so rapidly of late that, in the Wall Street phrase, "all the good news is out." The unfilled orders of the U. S. Steel Corporation on Jan. 31 were 5,037,323 tons, a jump of 220,647 tons over forward business on Dec. 31, and the largest amount since February, 1924. The Corporation is working at about 95% capacity. Price advances have occurred in bars, shapes, plates, sheets, and wire products...
...Salvation Hunters. What was reported to be a seven-league stride in pictures turned out to be only a good broad jump. Josef Von Sternberg has done things that were never done before. He has created a picture all nickeled and new. His supply of novelty ran out. He based his technique on simplicity and symbolism. His story dealt with a cowardly youth who came to town with a girl and child to find their fortunes. As the girl is about to be seduced, he finally finds his courage and, with it, presumably, his future...
...above), another record was broken. It was done, many believed, by virtue of a dissolute, cast-off track-shoe. Harold M. Osborne, famed Illinois jumper and Olympic Champion, carefully placed that old shoe beside the special runway which had been marked out for him at one side of the jumping posts. Many athletes believe that in a cast-off shoe, as in a saint's relic or the trophy of a holy war, lodges some curious potency ; and who shall say that Osborne's was not charmed? For, after acutely regarding this raffish talisman, Osborne measured his distance, sprang from...
...meet, Tibbetts ran a strong race in 4.30 although Larrivee and Hahn led him to the tape. Larrivee's time of 4.25 3-5 set a record for the Mechanics Building track. Jones with a handicap of four inches took second in the K. of C. high jump, at 6 ft. 1 1-2 in. His actual leap of 5 ft. 9 1-2 in. won third in the New England Championship scratched contest. The five foot handicap awarded to C. L. Pratt '28 in the shot-put added to his creditable heave of 39 ft. 7 in. gave...