Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pole vault, with three men capable of 13 feet or so, is possibly the Crimson's strongest single event except for the 35-pound weight. Bud Lockett, of New Orleans, Bill Lawrence, and Owen Torrey, whose broken leg has mended, form the Varsity vaulting triumvirate...
Harvard registered a second and third in the afternoon's pole vault. New Hampshire's Boo Morcom cleared 14 ft., 3 5/8 in., for first place and a new regional A.A.U. record. The Crimson's Bill Lawrence and Bud Lockett stepped out at 13 ft., and 12 ft., 6 in., respectively, and let the New Hampshire champ battle out the last foot and more against himself...
Three ink lines on a ticker tape-like roll in the seismologist's office record the motion. The original signals come from a "seismometer" unit in a vault...
...medicine man slipped into the open vault, snatched an armful of currency and disappeared. In the hospital next day the manager ruefully totted up the cost of his gullibility: twelve employees dead from cyanide, and a loss of about 50,000 yen to the Tekoku Bank. Police were hunting the man of distinction...
Varsity point-winners: 60-yard dash-Spivak (1), H. Thayer (4); 1000-yard run-F. Gurley (1); mile run-W. Baker (3); two-mile run-H. Rosenfeld (4); pole vault-A. Lockett (1), W. Lawrence (three-way tie for second); 16-pound shot-D. Trimble (1); 35-pound weight-S. Felton (1), D. Forsyth (3), T. Camoron...