Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boxes of heavy equipment. Neighbors thought they were only 'leggers. In the second-floor parlor they sawed a three-foot square in the hardwood floor. Beneath that they pierced 18 inches of brick. Acetylene torches next cut through a layer of steel. Through the hole beneath yawned the vault of Koch & Co., real estate firm, on the ground floor...
...cutters dropped down into the vault, burned their way through more steel into a safety deposit room. Aided by a card index, they cut into 350 boxes in which Koch clients, distrustful of banks, were hoarding their cash. Jewelry and securities were untouched. At 4 a. m. Sunday the robbers departed with loot estimated at $250,000 in cash. Chicago police blamed a gang of New York specialists for the city's biggest burglary in nearly a decade...
...walks, always over the same route. When someone suggested another route she said: "It doesn't matter. I am not really here." She developed phobias, kept six detectives in the house. She feared water, seldom bathed. Like Anknesenpaaten, she was not buried. Her body was put in a receiving vault next to that of her son John, which had been there for 31 years, the cemetery people never having had any instructions what...
...Pole Vault. Bill Miller of Stanford lay on his back in the sawdust pit, looking up at the bar, 14 ft., 3 in. over his head. The bar was jouncing and shaking but the huge, pleased roar of 85,000 spectators did not make it fall. Japan's little Shuhei Nishida, grinning broadly, helped Miller to his feet. Amazingly, Nishida had vaulted higher than Bill Graber or George Jefferson, two U. S. contestants who had been expected to fight it out with Miller for the Olympic championship. At 14:3, Nishida had tried three times and missed, then watched Miller...
Decathlon (100-metre sprint, broad jump, shot-put, high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole-vault, javelin throw, 1,500-metre run) went to huge James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, insurance salesman and onetime University of Kansas footballer, who was in sixth place before the last five events, finished with a world's record score of 8,462.23. Second was Matti Jarvinen's brother Akilles with...