Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dusty plain in the northern Province of Wallo last week a round-eyed dark-faced kinky-haired boy of 19 stood on a rug-draped platform of dried mud. To the rattle of war drums Ethiopian chieftains with lion-mane headdresses and gold embossed shields clustered protectively about the royal youngster. Across the field rolled a white-rimmed dust cloud out of which moved a horde of 100,000 yelling black warriors. Beyond the reviewing stand the troopers halted, faced to the north, where 100 miles away lay the town of Adowa. Then to a man they...
...their own. Early last month Undergraduate Anne Sibley climbed into a bus, started East. Since self-sufficient Undergraduate Sibley refrained from telling her Chicago parents where she was going, the Eastern Press was soon conducting a search. Last week the search ended on a barker's platform outside a Coney Island freak show. Undergraduate Sibley's job was to stand dumbly but alluringly beside the freaks while the barker was spieling. She worked from noon to midnight, earned $15 a week, lived with the tattooed lady...
Altogether about 5,000 people collected at Saratoga Spa. Governor Lehman mounted a platform, formally opened seven new buildings clustered around Saratoga's mineral springs dedicated to the curing of heart diseases, constipation, gout, rheumatism, nervousness and a stack of diseases which have not yet been catalogued...
...list of champions: 100-metre free style .............Olive McKean 440-yd. free style .............Lenore Right 880-yd. free style ..............Lenore Right Mile free style ...............Lenore Right 220-yd. back stroke...........Elizabeth Rompa 220-yd. breast stroke..............Ratherine Rawls 300-metre medley .................Katherine Rawls Springboard dive................ Mary Hoerger Platform dive Dorothy Poynton Hill 300-metre medley relay ..............Women's Swimming Association 880-yd. relay. . .Washington Athletic Club
...Hoergers, Ruth (12), Mary ( 11 ), and Helen (5), Mary distinguished herself most last week. In the springboard dive, she amazed her judges with a 2½ forward somersault which Olympic Platform Champion Dorothy Poynton Hill had said the day before no woman could ever hope to execute perfectly. When the judges, adding up points for her nine other efforts, declared 74-lb. Mary Hoerger the national champion, she bugged her eyes, wagged a hand at a judge, shrilled: "Hold me. My knees are weak." In the platform dive, Ruth Hoerger finished second to blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill...