Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McHenry to see that our flag was still there. It was not. At the classic flagpole spot where at noon 'the broad stripes and bright stars o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming,' there was nothing but the dim line of a naked pole. . . . That unflagged pole was one of the bitterest disappointments of my life...
...Pole-vault--Won by P. Harwood (H); second, Brown, (Y); third, O. Torrey. Height...
Strongest Bulldog opposition is expected to develop in the hurdles, pole-vault, mile and two mile, and dash. Although tomorrow's meet is the first large-scale test of the season for the Blue, some Elis, notably Cook and Finley in the hurdles, and Brown in the pole-vault, have been competing with good success in the various "name" carnivals this winter...
Broad jump--H. Thayer, P. McCormick; 35-pound weight throw--J. Fisher, S. Felton, P. Zeigler; high-jump--P. Garland, J. Harrigan, O. McCormicle; pole-vault--P. Harwood, O. C. Torrey, W. Lawrence; 16-pound shot-put--P. Garland, W. Jackson, A. Wheeler; 60-yard high, and 65-yard low hurdles--W. Flint, P. McCormick, R. Stokes; 60-yard dash--H. Thayer, R. Toppan, R. A. Cameron; one-mile run--J. Cogan, F. Gurley, H. May; one-mile relay--D. Hamblett, C. Wharton, A. Ruby, J. G. Wheeler; two-mile run--H. Rosenfeld, T. Walnut, C. Worth; two-mile relay...
...Navy had not flown far inland. The blank space beyond the South Pole was still the haziest, most mysterious area on anyone's map. It might be a featureless ice plain or it might be ridged with peaks higher than Mt. XRay...