Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when intercollegiate athletics needed stimulating far more than curbing, the New York World came out with a suggestion which if put into effect, might have altered the whole future development of Harvard athletics. At that time Congress was considering several projects for reaching the North Pole, and it is with this object in view that the World says...
...Tray had his day. Not to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd for his spectacular flight to the North Pole and back last spring at Spitzbergen but to U. S. Mail Pilot Shirley J. Short, for having flown 2,000 hours with valuable cargo in all kinds of weather and with never a serious accident or lapse in schedule, did the International League of Aviators last week award the Harmon Trophy for the best performance in 1926 by a U. S. flyer. To Pilot Georges Pelleder D'Oisy for his long distance flights (France to Africa, Paris to Tokyo) went...
...beginning of running, except that the child only wants to get somewhere Jumping over the threshold is a rainy day sport of the three-year-olds, and when at nine one is caught stealing the neighbor's apples one is surprised to find what a clever hurdler or pole-vaulter...
...pesent there is no outstanding material in this event, but Coach E. L. Farrell hopes to develop some throwers before the important meets arrive. The pole vaulters, however, have been doing extremely well. Both E. T. Clark '28 and B. G. Burbank '28 have been consistently clearing the bar at 12 feet, while R. B. O'R. Hocking '28 has been doing 11 and a half feet. This height will be considerably increased when the vaulters move out of doors...
...Burton; but the majority of votes which rescued the President came from unfamiliar sources: 62 Democrats (from Mr. Jacobstein to Mr. Swank); the lone Socialist, Mr. Berger; the entire Farmer-Laborite group, Messrs. Carss, Kvale, Wefald; Republican insurgents such as Mr. Frear of Wisconsin, Mr. Sosnow-ski, the Pole from Detroit, Mr. La Guardia of New York, who is now trying to bait Secretary Kellogg. It was a wave of pacifism rather than any great love of President Coolidge which brought these votes into the fold...