Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clark (H). Time--34 6-10 sec. 600 yard run--Tie for first between M. Tuttle (H) and H. De Fries (H); third, Hamblett (E). Time--1 min., 19 sec. Shot put--Won by J. Tootell (H); second, P. Harwood (H); third, Young (E). Distance--50 feet. Pole vault--Won by P. Harwood (H); second, Whitehill (E); third, Mathres (E). Height--12 feet...
...A.A.F.'s experimenters at Wright Field started working on the stunt four years ago. A plane dangling a nylon rope and a hook on the end of a long pole snatched 50-lb. dummies off the ground. Then a sheep was tried. The first one was hauled into the plane with its neck broken. The process was gentled until experimenters were finally ready to try the trick on a man. Lieut. Alex Doster volunteered...
...Bullets were whining up the street, so we dived behind an inadequate steel phone pole and hydrant. We tried three times to join the others, but each time bullets drove us back. Trying to accommodate my not exactly sylphlike figure to that reedy pole, I wished savagely its designer were in my place. Finally, after the longest five minutes I ever spent, we risked a dash and legged it back the way we had come and sat down behind a retaining wall and wondered what to do next. Civilians in windows and balconies offered all sorts of unintelligible suggestions...
Coach Jaako Mikkola will take 24 men to Tufts tomorrow for the opening meet of the Crimson winter track season. Starting at 2:30 o'clock with the pole vault and shot put, the dual meet will include, in addition to the field events the 50, 300, 600, 1000, mile and a half...
Larger than the Briggs Cage board oval, the Tufts indoor cinder track is 220 yards to the lap. Included in the dual meet will be the 50, 300, 600, 1000, mile and a half, two mile relay, pole-vault, and shot...