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...results of the shot put and broad jump were equally surprising. G. F. Bennett '32, with a two and one half foot handicap allowance, hurdled the weight 43 feet, 10 inches, outdistancing J. H. Dean '34, promising Crimson weight thrower, by a foot. J. Van R. Strong '34 led the field of broad jumpers, his five foot handicap boosting him to an excellent distance, 23 feet, 4 1-4 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNKNOWNS STAR IN WINTER TRACK HANDICAP EVENTS | 2/10/1932 | See Source »

...carriage was occupied by Dr. Kitokuro Ichiki. Minister of the Imperial Household. The bomb was strangely ineffective. One horse was scratched by a fragment, the carriage was uninjured. Emperor Hirohito popped his head out of his carriage in time to see little Japanese policemen swarming angrily over the bomb thrower, a tall angular Korean named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Puff of Smoke | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...return to the Dartmouth camp of R. E. Lee, discus and javelin thrower, and of George Stevens, sprinter, both of whom missed the Dartmouth-Brown-Columbia meet has greatly strengthened the Green team's chances for success on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH TRACK MEET IS ONLY MAJOR TILT HERE | 5/14/1931 | See Source »

Bernard Berlinger, 21, 6 ft. i in., 193 lb., captain of the Penn team, a student in the Wharton School of Finance, is a fair runner, a good jumper, a fine discus thrower, indoor intercollegiate shot-put champion, and a pole vaulter so proficient that only a few specialists, shooters for world's records, can beat him over the high bar. This year he wanted to break the world's decathlon record and make sure of a place on the Olympic team. He felt he could do it if he got better at the 1,500-metre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Penn Relays | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...dynamite, miles of barbed wire, thousands of tin hats, intended to galvanize the horror into realistic terms, merely become constituents as familiar and therefore as unnoticeable as the advertisements for grain and hardware, on the backdrops of rural vaudeville houses. Best sequences: James Gleason, henpecked husband of a knife-thrower, telling why he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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