Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pole vault--13 ft. N. B. Sherrell, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1925. S. R. Bradley, Princeton, and S. W. Carr, Yale, March...
...University track team received the first break in the 1926 H-D-C Triangular meet. In the draw for places held at the Harvard Club the day before the meet, Lundell, the Crimson entry in the 300-yard dash, drew the pole, which gave him the advantage of starting in the inside lane at the expense of Glendenning of Dartmouth and Captain Russell of Cornell. However, the results of the draw divided the advantage evenly on the whole, with the exception of the coverted pole in the 300. The possession of the latter made the University a slight favorite over...
Twenty-five members of the Harvard Flying Club will act as ushers on Thursday evening when Commander Richard E. Byrd describes his North Pole and transatlantic flights in a lecture in the ballroom of the Hotel Statier. This will be Commander Byrd's last appearance in Boston before he sets out on his hazardous aeroplane dash to the South Pole. The expedition is now forming, and the start is scheduled for September. Commander Byrd plans to build a small city on the rim of the Atlantic continent and to make this the base for his flight. He will outline...
...sheer disconnection of his dialogues. He tells unending stories with the eagerest conviction, no two sentences of which have the faintest rational relation. He wears no mad makeups, talks no dialects. He sings well enough, dances deftly, juggles Indian clubs, balances at the top of a 12 foot pole swinging hoops on his heels, walks a huge ball up a perilous incline and down the other side, whirls with his feet a heavy pole weighted with a man at either end, tumbles neatly, and catches lighted matches in his mouth. He might be compared to Douglas Fairbanks gone incurably insane...
...biographer in the new imaginative manner, brings a foreigner's sympathy to Benjamin Disraeli, Jew, enigma, suspect; gauges his ambition, lists the obstacles, counts the defeats, shows that Disraeli learned to temper his brilliance with patience until at last, aged and broken, he attained "the top of the slippery pole" of politics...