Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little girl, Anna Louise Strong believed in a lot of things. First, she recalls, she went for the idea that every human being has a soulmate; but she never found one. Then she believed that she could crowd a thousand lives into one lifetime-to be "a North Pole explorer, a great writer, a mother of ten." She turned out to be none of these things...
George Wade runs the mile in 4:20, George Appel does 13 feet 6 inches in the pole vault, Bundy, a hot-cold broad-jumper, is capable of 24 feet or so, and the Eli mile and two mile relay teams are packed with good...
Shot putter Don Trimble, Hank Rood, 35-pound weight thrower, and the mile relay team composed of Dave Hamblett, A1 Ruby, Harvey Thayer, and Chuck Harwood all placed second. Pat McCormick, John Harrigan, and Arthur Lockett and Bill Lawrence took thirds in the 60-yard hurdles, high jump, and pole vault respectively. Fourth place went to John Cogan in the mile, Chuck Harwood in the 60-yard dash, George Williamson in the 1000-yard run, and Don Carter in the broadjump...
...spite of its impressive victory, Mikkola is still worried about the freshman team's lack of manpower. "We need high jumpers, hurdlers, pole vaulters and shot putters. Sometimes our opposition automatically gets second and third because we only have one man to enter in an event. We can still use beginners," Mikola concluded...
Mikkola reiterated his long-standing plea for more men to come out for the squad. "We have to have some depth," he implored. "Snow is the only pole valuator on the team and Ravreby the only shot putter," Mikkola said. "There are several events in which we have only two men and in others only three...