Word: owens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard won two events and that was about all it did the whole afternoon. Willo Fisher won the hammer throw with 153 feet 6 1/2 inches, brother Jack, surprisingly, being out of the money. Pete Harwood went up to 12 feet 6 inches to win the pole vault, while Owen Torrey cleared 12 feet, his best mark of the season, to tie with John Barrow of Navy for second place...
...English plumber, can't keep her helping hands off defective drains no matter what the social circumstances. In fact, she seems incapable of learning "her place." This combination of ability and inability becomes acutely embarrassing when she goes into service for one of the better county families (Reginald Owen, Margaret Bannerman and Scion Peter Lawford...
...just about made up his mind to raise one of the eight surviving members of the Supreme Court into the Chief Justiceship, vacant since the death of Harlan Fiske Stone (TIME, April 29). Then he conferred with former Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and former Justice Owen Roberts...
Leads of 5 feet 9 inches landed Pete Garland and Jack Harrigan in a tie in the high jump. Pete Harwood won the pole vault with 12 feet 8 inches. Owen Torrey and Tom Howard were tied with Bob Clarke of Yale for second at 11 feet...
...Owen J. Roberts, lately a Supreme Court Justice, the situation called for an extra-legal wisecrack. Easing into his speech at last week's annual membership meeting of the Associated Press, he twinkled: "I look upon you as in a certain sense malefactors...