Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fine Arts has brought Elisabeth Bergner back to Boston for one week, to retrace her sprightly path of vicissitudes through "Escape Me Never." This picture far better than "Katherine the Great," accounts for the extravagant eulogy that critics are wont to toss to the Continental actress. The chief merit of the story is the abundant opportunities it gives its heroine to be versatile in her emotions...
...second to Yale's Harding, who sailed over 12 feet, a inches. Norman Cahners picked up the other second place for Jaakko's men when he dispatched the 35-pound weight to the tune of 50 feet, 9 1-2 inches, just four feet behind the winning toss...
Other Crimson points were picked up by Dubiel's fourth place in the broad jump, Bill Schmidt's similar spot in the hurdles, Bert Litman's fourth place in the shot, and Steven Brennan's one point in he weight toss...
...winter afternoon in 1891, a gymnasium instructor at Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, Springfield, Mass., named James A. Naismith divided his class of 18 into two sides, gave them an old soccer ball, had them toss it through two bottomless peach baskets hung on the wall. That was the beginning of what is now the most popular winter game in the U. S. Last year, Olympic officials discovered that basketball is played by 18,000,000 addicts almost the world around, therefore added it to the program at Berlin next summer...
Robert A. Sears '39 won the University handicap 35 pound weight throwing contest yesterday afternoon in the Old Cage with a toss of 38 feet, 1 3/4 inches...