Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bennett died. Threatened by fate a year ago, when he was hurt testing the ship in which Byrd flew across the Atlantic, he was finally struck down. He who had survived the terrors of a flight over the North Pole in 1926, succumbed at the prime of his flying career, at 38. He who was to go with Byrd to the Antarctic this year died in Jeffrey Hale Hospital, Quebec, despite all that science and medicine could...
...finals will take place tomorrow afternoon as follows: at 1.30 o'clock, one mile run, high jump, pole vault, shot put, and javelin throw; at 1.40 o'clock, 440-yard run; at 1.50 o'clock, 120-yard high hurdles; at 2 o'clock, 100-yard dash; at 2.10 o'clock, two mile run; at 2.20 o'clock, 880-yard run; at 2.30 o'clock, 220-yard low hurdles; at 2.40 o'clock, 220-yard dash; at 2.15 o'clock, broad jump, hammer throw, and discus throw
Describing the recent flight of G. H. Wilkins over the North Pole from Alaska to Spitzbergen as "the Elizabethan dream of a Northwest passage come true," Vilhjalmur Stefansson Arctic explorer and member of the University faculty from 1904 to 1906 explained to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday several reasons for the importance of Wilkins' achievement...
...Pole vault--Won by P. A. Tolman '31, Smith Hall, 9 ft. 6 in.: second, a tie between McKennan, Gore Hall, T. O. Frasier '81, Smith Hall, and L.N. Grimes '81, Sheppard Hall...
Beside the huge Fokker in which Byrd flew over the North Pole, the Josephine Ford, stood the yellowed Pride of Detroit, one of three trim Stinson planes, in which William Brock and Edward Schlee flew from Newfoundland to Japan, almost three-quarters of the way around the world...