Word: spearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attacks Azov, warring against Kalmucks, Tartars and Turks. His soldiers desert. His siege fails. He builds ships at Voronesk. He mans them with Dutchmen and Germans. He takes Azov and crucifies the Khan and two generals. He drives a spear into their sides...
Harvard, however, will probably get a first in the shot put through the efforts of Captain Dunker. Bench of Yale will be his most dangerous opponent. The latter, though, does not specialize in the shot, but in the javelin. After establishing a new dual meet spear record against Princeton with a throw of 186 feet 6 3-8 inches, Bench received the Intercollegiate gold medal at Philadelphia. Cheek of Harvard should be able to displace the Eli's second man, Davison. The Crimson football captain elect can hurl the javelin two or three yards further than his rival
...came in second and Paulsen fourth. In the two-mile run another Eli, Briggs, was fourth, behind Tibbetts of Harvard, Barclay of Penn State, and Loucks of Syracuse. In the high jump Yale again figured with Deacon, who cleared the bar at 6 feet 1 inch. By throwing the spear 186 feet 4 inches Bench of Yale took first place in the javelin event. Bench was in Cambridge ten days ago looking over the Crimson weight men in the Princeton meet...
...this the angry Turnus hurled his spear...
...lengthening the javelin distance over two feet, the football captain. Cheek, surprised the dopesters who figured he had been spending all his time at spring football practice. Dorman, Schlaikjer, and Chase also scored in this event, with an M. I. T. spear thrower trailing in fifth place...