Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Russia's Yuri Stepanov racked up a world's record high jump of 7 ft. 1 in. early this summer, western trackmen admitted to mild surprise. Few had ever heard of Yuri, and he had not even made the Soviet Olympic squad. When Russia's Olympian Igor Kashkarov (who cleared only 6 ft. 10½ in. to finish third at Melbourne) claimed a jump of 7 ft. ¼ in., western trackmen began to wonder what was going on. The seven-foot barrier, which had once tripped everyone but California's Charley Dumas, seemed suddenly...
MERCURY will be toned down for a more subdued appearance, will get a bigger (383 cu. in.) engine and a new prestige model called the Olympian with a 125-in. wheelbase v. 122 for standard Monterey and Montclair lines...
Whatever he did, he always had an Olympian confidence in his own work. In 1934 he wrote: "I am on a perfectly sure road; there is nothing to discuss or to criticize. One does not criticize anyone that is functioning...
...lecture platform aspect of the professor-student relationship was described in General Education in a Free Society as the Olympian level. This lofty level will be improved only when Departments pay more attention to teaching and, more important, when the individual professor makes greater attempt to improve his teaching technique...
...Derek Ibbotson (4:02). All four had already broken four minutes elsewhere; Ibbotson had come to town boldly predicting he would win in 3:56. "Our appearance," said the unabashed fourth-place Briton, "ought to be a challenge to the young fellows of the States." It was. Muscular Olympian Tom Courtney ran himself into exhaustion in a spectacular 880-yd. race, beat his Melbourne teammate Arnie Sowell by 1½ seconds, set a new world's record (1:46 8) and announced that he was now ready to take a crack at the four-minute mile...