Word: vault
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been announced by the Athletic Association that the first three events of the annual Fall Handicap Track Meet which concludes the fall track season, will be run off this afternoon. The pole vault will be contested at 2.30 o'clock, the high jump at 3 o'clock, and the broad jump at 3.30 o'clock...
...continue until late in November, when a general-tall meet will conclude the season. Candidates are asked to report with equipment ready or work at the following hours; for the Shot Put 1.30 to 2.00 o'clock; Discus, 2 to 2:30 o'clock; Javelin, 2.30 to 3: Pote Vault, 3 o'clock; all Runners, 3 o'clock...
After he published his first novel, a boldish tale for its day (1902), it was not adulation but inherent self-confidence that made him vault the footlights in Richard Mansfield's theatre one afternoon and offer that gruff celebrity a play. Mansfield commissioned him. With the aid of Silk Goshen, his mother's Jewish impresario and second husband, he spent a hermit year in a fishing colony off the Maine coast. The play was written and accepted, but what it was, except "about the Civil War," the world never knew. Mansfield died and for friendship's sake...
Buried. Frank A. Munsey, late famed Manhattan publisher (TIME, Jan. 4, MILESTONES), in the cemetery of his native village, Lisbon Falls, Me., after reposing in a vault at Woodlawn Cemetery, Manhattan, for the last five months...
...Pole Vault...