Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson's latest sports champion, Truman Mitchell Ford '42, commonly known as Mike, should now be able to break his former records in his specialty, the pole vault. He has already smashed two Harvard all-time markers in this event, the first time with a leap of 13 feet, 11 1-4 inches at the Harvard-Yale meet this winter...
Breaking his own recent record for the Harvard pole vault, Mike Ford cleared 13 feet 11 3.4 inches Saturday night to take second place at the national indoor IC4A meet in Madison Square Garden. Ford came in behind Richmond Morcum, double winner from New Hampshire University, who vaulted 14 feet 4 1/4 inches to set a new meet record...
...most consistent winners on the Varsity track team, Mike Ford in the pole vault, and Tom White in the hammer-throw will represent the Crimson at the national indoor IC4A meet in Madison Square Garden tonight...
Ford has his favorite pole, with which he jumped 13 feet 11 1/4 inches to break the Harvard record in the Yale meet, safely packed and already on its way to New York. He is going to be out for the 14 foot mark Saturday night, and he will probably have to reach it to beat out New Hampshire University's Albert Morcum who has already jumped 14 feet 1 inch...
From the sorry history of World War I's Alien Property Custodians, he is a brave man who would touch the job in this war with a ten-foot pole. Between 1917 and 1934 (when the office was incorporated into the Justice Department) there were six custodians. Three were accused in the courts and in Congress of shocking dishonesties; one (Thomas Woodnutt Miller, President Harding's friend) went to jail...