Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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White made a 22 foot two inch leap, with a six inch handicap, in the broad jump. A. E. French '29, jumping scratch, was bracketed with Geoffrey Parsons '30, holding a two inch advantage, in a jump of 21 feet eight and one half inches. French again distinguished himself by winning the 16-pound shot put with a 45 foot three and a half inch throw, taking into consideration his six foot handicap. He had not practised during the winter training session. C. A. Pratt '28 and W. D. Ticknor '30 were next in line with throws of 43 feet...
...waited anxiously. Mary Garden had promised an opera that would make her Salome look like puss-in-the-corner. As Judith, the Biblical girl,* Miss Garden sang magnificently. The critics however, did not share her enthusiasm for the opera or for Arthur Honegger's music. It tended to leap from vigorous stimulation into dissonance-reflecting the modernistic trend...
...obstacle is the New York law. All stocks admitted to York law. All stocks admitted to the Exchange listings must be registered; and most foreign stocks are made out to "bearer." That is, they may be traded around like U. S. $1 bills. To leap over this law, investment bankers have adopted this subterfuge. They deposit foreign stock with a trust company, which in turn issues trustee certificates against the escrowed stock. Such stock is U. S. stock, and is passable on the Exchange. So the Governors last week had a draft made for proposal to the New York Legislature...
...pole vault, the Crimson entrants, Clark and Burbank, failed to place, but they were up against highly unusual competition. The vault was won by Harrington of the B. A. A., who broke the meet record with a leap of 13 feet and fiveeighths of an inch. Myers, formerly of Dartmouth, and Sherrill of Pennsylvania, also cleared more than twelve feet...
...citizens drew up a petition for the recall of Gov. Roland H. Hartley. They needed 97,576 signatures in order to bring about a special election. "It will be easy," said the little group. "We will have 100,000 signatures by Dec. 1. The people of the state will leap to smite that man Hartley. He has abused the powers of his office; he has been responsible for the dismissal of that good educator, Dr. Henry Suzzallo, from the presidency of the University of Washington...