Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale retains winners of five first places a year ago while Harvard retains 3 1/2. Additionaly the colleges have the four pole vaulters, Bliss and Harding of Yale and Pettingell and Herrick of Harvard who tied for first place. Harvard's half first place is represented by Bob Haydock who tied with Johnny Badman of Yale, now graduated, in the high jump...
...Donahue, the former Andoverian who has terrorized Exeter timber-toppers for years, ought to snip the 15.4 high hurdles mark. He has been consistently topping 11 feet in the pole vault. Oldfather and Nichols are the cream of Jaakko's distance men. They romped through the last lap together at Andover to finish the mile in 4:39. Saturday, with Oldfather out, Nichols distanced the field to win in 4:38 at Exeter. Against Yale he will run the mile just to pick up points, leaving the blue-ribbon to Oldfather if he can get it. Nichols will...
...Russell and Frank Jourdan, a converted quarter-miler, may pick up points in the 220. Roger Shaefer is not far behind Donahue in the hurdles. Westmore Willcox, 3rd, whose father holds the meet record in that event, will run the quarter. David Ives in the broad jump and pole vault, Rosenberger in the latter event if his ankle heals, Russell and Weed in the high jump. Whit Dodge in the half, and Baker in the mile all may garner vital seconds and thirds...
...Research. Soon the Research will take up marine research where Carnegie Institute's Carnegie left off in 1929, when she blew up in Apia Harbor, Samoa. Threefold purpose of the Research will be to chart unsounded depths, to study atmospheric electricity, to find out what makes the North Pole attractive to compass needles. A 20th-century anachronism, the Research is a wooden sailing vessel, nonmagnetic in every possible detail. Her hull is of teak; bolts, girders and anchor chain of bronze; rigging will be of nonmagnetic alloys. If her sailors wish, as all good sailormen do, to carry jack...
...COURAGE - Joseph Vogel - Knopf ($2.50). Written with a straight left, with humor and talent also, this story of a powerful, slow-but-sure-witted jobless Pole is by the author of At Madame Bonnard's, who looks like the best bet among present proletarian novelists...