Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers silently forced Antonescu up the stairs to a small fireproof vault King Carol had built to safeguard his stamp collection. There they locked...
Pete Harwood, New England A.A.U. pole-vault title holder, entered the V-12 and Eliot House from Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire. His father, a 1920 Harvard man and U.S. Olympic pole-vaulter, started Pete vaulting with an old birch pole in the fifth grade at Concord, Mass. By the time Harwood had reached the eighth grade, he was clearing 8 ft., 6 in., although at the time his real ambition was baseball. It wasn't until his junior year at Exeter that Harwood discarded everything else and concentrated on the pole-vault, finishing the season with a jump...
Last spring at the New England A.A.U. meet, he climaxed his schoolboy career by leaping 12 ft., 53/3 in. for a new Exeter Academy vault record. He considers this a bigger thrill than his 12 ft., 6 in. tie for third in the National Junior A.A.U. championships at Randall's island, New York...
Pete, who intends to remain at Harvard after the war, won't be able to compete this summer under the first-term V-12 ruling but looking ahead to the winter and spring seasons, says that he hopes some day to vault 14 feet. It praise of head coach Jaako Mikkola, he adds, "I think Jaako can get me up there...
Typewriters were just being invented, and were so precious that the office locked theirs in the safe each night. The future Governor of the Bank of England discovered the combination, burgled the vault nightly, practiced on the typewriter for hours until he was an expert...