Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...potent (won 14, lost 1) basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel bar dips, softball throw, sit-ups-he scored an all-time high of 926 points out of 1,000 (cadet average...
About 30 minutes short of the end, an improvised coffin is borne solemnly to rest in a resonant stone vault. Its occupant has died before your eyes, but you can't be too sure, for she was subject to cataleptic trances. After the pallbearers have gone, the camera coldly, tenderly approaches the coffin in a silence so intense as to be almost unbearable. When the shriek of the prematurely buried woman finally comes, it releases the rest of the show into a free-for-all masterpiece of increasing terror...
...high Rumanian officers and officials. It was headed by ex-Premier General Constantin Sanatescu, formerly King Mihai's aide-de-camp. On the night of the coup d'état which overthrew the pro-Axis Government, General Sanatescu helped the King imprison Dictator Ion Antonescu in a vault built for ex-King Carol's stamp collection. Later, Sanatescu formed the first pro-Allied Government...
Also responsible for keeping the Crimson in the running Saturday were Marv Jenkins with firsts in the high hurdles and high jump; Pete Harwood with a first in the pole vault; and Herbie Fritts, who copped...
Broad jump-Won by Crowell (B); second, Bates (B); third, Goodwin (T); fourth, Council (T). Distance-21 ft. Pole vault-Won by Harwood (H); second, Bailey (T); third, Sleicher (B); fourth, tie between Franke (T) and Soukup (T). Height...