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Champion's Confidence. A lineal descendant of the ancient pentathlon,* the decathlon is the most searching test of athletic skill and endurance ever devised: four running events (100, 400 & 1,500 meters and the 110-meter hurdles); six field events (javelin, discus, shotput, pole vault, high jump and broad jump). At 21, already a veteran of eight decathlon meets, four times national champion and the world recordholder, handsome Bob Mathias meets to a remarkable degree the physical specification for this Olympic challenge. He is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), with the reaching stride of a hurdler or high-jumper...
...Lineal Descendant. The A-cannon is not designed to replace divisional artillery, the 105-mm. and 155-mm. howitzers. It is what is known as "Army" artillery, a lineal descendant of such famous oldtime corps performers as Long Tom and Big Bertha, a type of heavy artillery brought to the front only for such special purposes as siege action or destruction of an enemy massed for a river crossing. Its use against lesser concentrations would be militarily ineffective as well as prohibitively expensive. At long range the big gun is four times as accurate as the average field piece...
...basic idea of the game is for the batsmen to defend their wickets. They use special bats with a long, flat, four-inch wide blade. The wicket, a device peculiar to cricket, is a lineal descendant of the ancient cottage wicket gate. In present form it consists of three thin poles or "stumps" spaced exactly three inches apart, with two little wood cylinders, or "bails" mounted...
From this, Murdock considers it a short, logical step "to regard the medicine man as the lineal ancestor not of the physician but of the psychiatrist." Modern sophisticates who speak jokingly of their psychoanalysts as "witch doctors" are closer to the mark than they think...
Sincerity & Good Will. Clayton was speaking for the Atlantic Union Committee, headed by former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts. Atlantic Union was a lineal descendant of Union Now, founded and expounded by Clarence Streit, longtime crusader for a union of free peoples. Its blueprint envisioned a political, military and economic federation of the original seven North Atlantic Treaty nations (U.S., Canada, Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg...