Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handicap fall pole vault, held yesterday afternoon, F. B. Clark '28, who had been entered at scratch, cleared 12 feet and won the event. C. E. Dunlap '30 cleared a fraction under 11 feet, and with a one foot handicap, took second honors. R. R. Impink '28, with a nine-inch handicap, and F. V. Weeks '30, with a 15-inch handicap, both totalled 11 feet nine inches and tied for third...
Only for a short time will the papers repose in a steel vault. At Glen Head, L. I., where he lives, Colonel Isham has ordered a fireproof room to be built where the relics may be kept. There he will prepare them for publication, probably with the help of Professor Chauncy Brewster Tinker, Yale authority on Boswell; perhaps also with the help of Geoffrey Scott, biographer of "Zelide" and translator of her stories. After publication the papers will be occasionally open to view, that scholars who wish to scrutinize the actual writing of a vain, foolish, careful, idolatrous and preposterous...
...vault. On the rim of the surrounding natural amphitheatre, the crowd watched the wisp of smoke until nightfall...
...Petra, abandoned stone city of northern Arabia, a Bedouin started great excitement by happening to poke a certain boulder in a certain way and, later, telling what he had seen. The boulder had tilted, dropping him into a shallow vault, then crashed shut. Feeling his way through Stygian passages for perhaps half a mile, he reached (he said) a large, lighted chamber whence six other tunnels burrowed further into the mountain. Commanding the chamber was a monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba...
...mile run. Weightman Smith and Lord David Burghley of Cambridge left their guests clumping behind in the 120-yard high and 220-yard low hurdle races, respectively. All that the Yale-Harvards could do was win the three-mile run, the shot-put, broad jump and pole vault. Two Cantabs out-leaped Wolf and Larsen of Yale in the high jump. Since only first places counted, the meet score finally stood Oxford-Cambridge 7, Yale-Harvard 5; a victory of stamina over statistics...