Word: roped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Section 1: Mon., Electricity; Wed., Hydraulics and Drainage. Section 2: Wed., Strength of Materials; Fri., Strength of Materials. Section 3: Mon., Hydraulics and Drainage; Fri., Rigging and Rope Splicing...
...Concrete Construction 3-4; Rope Splicing and Rigging 4-6: Fri., Rigging...
...feature of the program, recently announced by E. E. Babb, chairman of the B. A. A. athletic committee, will be the events exclusively set aside for men in the service. These follow: 40-yard dash, 40-yard rescue racer, 600-yard run with full equipment, rope-climbing contest, tug-of-war between teams composed of eight men, and relay races. There will be two special races for both soldiers and civilians in which entrants they show by preliminary trial that they are worthy of competing. One of these, the three-mile run, is scratch, and athletes must show a record...
...pinch, for one clause reads that all dances, public and private, shall stop at 10 o'clock. Gone also will be the midnight oil consumption of the mid-year period; even the movie palaces will have to leave the hero hanging over a canyon edge on a thin rope, if he is so inconsiderate as to be in that position, at the tenth stroke of the clock...
...boys will demonstrate for the first time before a large audience. The trek cart contests will illustrate the great value of this invention in boy scout equipment. Five troops will take part in it, each troop to enter a cart and a team of ten scouts, eight on the rope and two to steer. The teams will start on a given line and run seventy yards. The carts will then be converted into tables and benches, and after a few more details they will be assembled and drawn twenty feet to the finish line, the team crossing the line first...