Word: leap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Burns of Cambridge high-jumped 5 feet. 10 inches in the Oxford-Cambridge meet, a low mark in comparison with Landon's 6 feet, 2 5-8 inches for Yale Saturday. Three Americans have equalled Burns' leap: Goodell and Krogness of the University, and Hannon of Yale...
...mile runs Otis Barton '22 and C. F. Ramseyer '23 won first respectively. Barton finished ten yards ahead of his nearest opponent and Ramseyer twenty. The high-jump was the most interesting field event. A. I. Smith ocC. nosing out B. W. Clark '23 by one inch, with a leap of 5 feet. The latter also won from Lockwood by one inch...
...Germany's indemnity hangs heavy on her head--it is a huge indemnity. Would she not leap at a chance to cancel it? Moral influence would be no deterrent; and furthermore Germany's desire for world domination is not gone, nor is it dormant. So evident is it, that in the minds of men of closest perception working amidst the Germans over there is the almost universal conviction that the war ended three months too soon. Germany made the War in an attempt for world domination and she still keeps that ambition in her mind, and adds to it according...
Macomber, substituting at end, scored the first touchdown after catching a long forward pass while practicaly surrounded by second team players. He completed the pass by virtue of a spectacular leap in the air, and then, squirming free from the Black-jerseyed backfield, dashed 30 yards, crossing the goal line. The second and final touchdown was made by Kunhardt, who had been substituted at center. The first team was lined up under the scrubs' goal posts when one of the backs who was trying to plug a hole through the second team's line, fumbled. The pile of players...
...meet on Saturday, the University track team secured seventh place, seconds in the century dash and the broad-jump by E. O. Gourdin '21, and a tie for second in the pole-vault by R. W. Harwood '20, accounting for the Crimson total. Gourdin, with a leap of 23 feet 7 1-4 inches, broke the Harvard record, set last year by H. C. Flower '19, who jumped 23 feet 3 inches, and was only inches behind R. E. Brown of Princeton in the 100. Harwood cleared the bar at 12 feet 6 inches below the winner, E. E. Myers...