Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pole vault--Won by Rosenberger (H); tied for second, Martin (A), Stimson (A), Donohue (H). Height...
Other Harvard performers did reasonably well. Frederick McIsaac '40 cleared 13 feet in the pole vault. Mason Fernald, out all week with a cold looked well in the hurdle semi-finals, though not graduating to the final heat...
Jack Donovan, Dartmouth hurdler; Bill Harding, Yale pole vaulter, and Artie Byrnes, Manhattan Sophomore high jumper, and Herb Weast, Columbia sprinter, are other Millrose place winners of note, eligible for the Intercollegiates on March...
...adventures and launched balloon races that started as many as 50 gas bags blowing wildly over the U. S. Nobody knows what wires Bennett pulled in Rutherford Hayes's Administration to persuade the U. S. Navy to back the terrible attempt of the Herald to find the North Pole. But on July 8, 1879. a crude, unwieldy little naval vessel called the Jeannette sailed slowly out of San Francisco, carrying scientific equipment, a crew of 31, including two Herald correspondents, headed for the Polar Seas and sure disaster...
...Islands, to St. Michaels in bleak Norton Sound, through storms on the shallow Bering Sea to St. Lawrence Bay on the coast of Siberia, through the Bering Straits to the black cliffs of Herald Island, the Jeannette pushed her way. There she was frozen in, far south of the Pole, even south of waters regularly visited by whalers. Contrary to common belief, the frozen wastes were not silent and inert. Submerged ice floes smashed steadily against the hull of the Jeannette. The pressure on her timbers made the ship crack with a sound like repeated rifle shots, and at times...