Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presently, as the State Coach clattered into Parliament Square and drew up, Emperor Hirohito stepped nimbly down, as though nothing had happened, and was received by members of the Kizokuin (House of Peers) and the Shugiin (Commons), standing at stiff attention in the open air. Soon, beneath the vault of Heaven, the Son of Heaven pronounced in high, piercing, rapid syllables the traditional Four Sentences, opening Parliament...
...variations of the stars and other celestial objects; they are studied not only by the Observatory staff, but also by frequent visitors from observatories in America and abroad. The collection is being increased at the rate of approximately 4000 plates annually, so rapidly that an additional fireproof plate vault must be erected soon...
...Pole vault: First, Osborne Sutermeister '32 (8 inches); second, W. H. Cleaver '29 (scratch); third, C. E. Dunlap '30 (scratch). Height--12 feet, 2 inches...
Yesterday afternoon, the second day of the Fall Handicap Track Meet, the finals of the 100-yard and 200-yard dashes, the 120-yard low hurdles, three quarter mile run, high jump, and pole vault were completed...
...basement will contain 36 study rooms for the students doing research work, several stack rooms, like the present ones in Widener Library, and all the locker rooms. Here also will be located a large vault to protect the valuable papers and documents which the Law School possesses. For the use of those working in the library, 98 stack cubicles also will be placed in the basement...