Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other eight Crimson entries in the Knights of Columbus games won't have to contend with the world's number one hurdler, but they will have their hands full. Pole-vaulters Bill Lawrence and Gene Lockett with match leaps with Bob Richards of Illinois (winner of last year's Millrose vault at 14 feet, and the favorite tonight), Boo Morcom, University of New Hampshire triple-threat field man, and Yalio freshmen Bill Apel, who set a national schoolboy record of 12 feet, six inches at Andover last year...
Elsewhere, the men to watch tomorrow are Ruby Fobert (Tufts) in the broad jump, Warren Willette (Northeastern) in the high jump, Bill Lawrence and Gene Lockett (Harvard) in the pole vault, and big Geoffrey Tootell (Harvard) in the shot...
...routine military housekeeping, and, wherever he happened to be, cultivating the vegetable gardens which were his hobby. In 1937 he was in command of the sth Infantry Brigade at desolate Vancouver Barracks, Wash., when three Russian aviators startled the world by flying from Europe to America over the North Pole. They landed at his field...
...Communist-dominated Poland, defendants in the nearly continuous political trials usually "confess" and "repent" before the ax falls. But last week, from a crude, unpainted witness box in the center of a Warsaw courtroom, a courageous Pole on trial for his life departed from the Moscow purge trial tradition and spoke his unrepentant mind. Poles considered his behavior sensational...
Blast it, Vag groaned. He swung an invisible ski pole at holidays in general. Vacation was swell, but Christmas cramped your style. Sort of chopped up the first week. And places were always so crowded-why not just leave and head for the mountains...