Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explorers are flag planters. But Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in his flight across unexplored Antarctica to the South Pole last week dropped no emblems of U. S. sovereignty (see page 64). Domain over the ice-locked continent at Earth's bleak nadir seemed likely to be determined not by fur-clad flag-planters but by silk-hatted diplomats...
...true that very little can be known definitely about what Commander Byrd may expect to find at the South Pole", said Professor D. W. Whittlesey in answer to questions put to him by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
Next evening the Mob marched to Eastland jail. They dragged Murderer Ratliff from his bunk, stripped him of his clothes, paraded him 200 yards through the main streets to a telegraph pole. A rope jerked Ratliff off the ground, broke, let him down with a thump. Under the code of the Old West, when a lynching rope broke, the victim was freed. Eastland that night did not follow the Old West's code. Fifteen terrible minutes passed before a new grass rope was produced. Up went Ratliff a second time...
...Evening World's theory that this is to be explained by Yale's formidable reputation, acquired in the eighties, when Walter Camp had a monopoly on knowledge of the game, or else by the magic of the figure on the Yale totem pole, which is a bulldog. Either of these explanations is plausible and worth thinking about. Our own belief, however, is that the real explanation is to be found in the atmosphere of gentility which is thought to hang over the Harvard campus. Gentility, to the average American, suggests a lot of sissies: it is quite incompatible with physical...
...runners winning without handicap were W. C. Rowe '30 who took the 110-yard low hurdles in 13 3-5 seconds and also the 220-yard dash in 24 seconds: N. P. Beveridge '32, who took the high jump, reaching 5 feet, 10 inches: Oscar Sutermeister '32, who pole vaulted 12 feet, 3 inches: F. J. Mardulier '30, who took the 70-yard high hurdles in 9 4-5 seconds: J. S. Marsh '32, who was victor in the javelin throw with a heave of 161 feet, 8 inches; and F. C. Fitts '33, who put the shot 43 feet...