Word: poling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last season's track outfit, representing practically every event. Of these men, four were awarded letters as a result of placing in the recent I. C. 4A. meet at New York, including Vernon Munroe '31 and V. L. Hennessy '30 in the relay, C. E. Dunlap '30 in the pole vault, and F. J. Mardulier '30 in the high hurdles. The other returning letter men, listed with their events, are as follows...
...many a year now have fashions been cruel to the heavy. With dress designers concentrating on eliminating all the differences between the shadow cast by a woman and the shadow cast by a barber's pole, women of generous poundage have been consistently unfortunate. Present fashion forecasts, it is true, predict that the straight line will this year make some concessions to the curve. But even such contours as may be established will probably be willowy rather than rotund, graceful rather than pronounced...
...first showing in Manhattan of a newsreel concerning the rescue of the Nobile North Pole Expedition by the Russian icebreaker, Krassin, yells, screams, and shouts of "Cannibal" greated the image of Zappi, Italian captain accused of eating Swedish Explorer Malmgren...
...wind. A certain building which engineers were called upon to deal with was swinging to an appreciable degree. It was found that by the construction of a flagpole of proper flexibility on top of the building, and by suspending a weight of several hundred pounds from this pole, that the vibration period of the entire building was altered and the swinging stopped...
...Pole vault--Won by Sturdy (Yale); Berlinger (Pennsylvania), second; tie for third between C. E. Dunlap '30, Collyer (Cornell), Pond (Yale), and Cone (Yale). Distance--13 ft., 7 3-4 in. (New intercollegiate record...