Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, a four-minute mile, a seven-foot high jump, a 15-foot pole vault were considered as unlikely as a cow jumping over the moon. Year after year U. S. athletes, a dedicated, concentrated and highly competitive lot, have approached nearer & nearer these impossible figures. Last week, at Berkeley, Calif., Pole Vaulter Cornelius Warmerdam of the San Francisco Olympic Club became the first trackman officially to do the "impossible." In a triangular track meet (University of California, Washington State College, San Francisco Olympic Club) he succeeded in clearing the bar at 15 ft.-one inch higher than...
Paul Johrde raced home first in the mile trailed by Logan in third place, while Jack Bonner and Truman Ford won the shot put and pole vault for the Crimson team...
...eight-ounce charge touched off from a safe distance with an electric detonator shattered a 40-foot telephone pole, blew chunks of kindling 150 feet into the air. When Inventor Barlow put five pounds in a dugout, set it off, earth and sand roared up to the sky, and the "whip-back" of air rushing into the vacuum created by the heat of the blast sucked out the sides of a shack 25 feet away. The force of the explosion was felt 1,000 feet away. The new test will show Army and Navy men whether a bigger charge...
...broad, tree-lined Gran Via and the busy Calle de Alcala leading to the Puerta del Sol, from new flagpoles fluttered thousands of the red-&-gold flags, flanked by the emblems of Spain's single Fascist party, the Falange Espanola, and of the traditionalist Requetés. Each pole bore the single word...
Warren Wheelock does both abstract and realistic sculpture, regularly switches from one to the other. Typical is his Lincoln series. The Intellectual Lincoln (1924) is a cross between an abstraction and a totem pole. The Meditative Lincoln (1930) is a seated abstract figure that might equally well be Rameses II. Realistic from shoes to stovepipe hat is The Tragic Lincoln (1934), his sombre Lincoln on Horseback...