Word: vaultingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dash before he found his balance. Duke's Dave Sime also finished out of the money, and the race went to a long shot, Army Lieut. Ken Kave. There was a second of excitement when spectators spotted a red-shirted stranger sailing over the pole-vault bar set at 15 ft. But before they could look up his name-Melvin Schwarz of the Baltimore Olympic Club-an announcer took the triumph away. Schwarz was only practicing. Perennial 15-footer Don Bragg, World Champion Bob Gutowski, Schwarz and Ohio's Jerry Welbourn all fouled...
...field events, varsity competitors will include high jumpers John deKiewiet and Jack Murphy; Liles, Bob Downs and Art Wente in the broad jump; freshman Tome Blodgett and junior Dick Williams in the pole vault; and weightmen Jim Doty and John DuMoulin...
Crystal-ball gazers predict that B.U. will dominate the weights and the Crimson the middle distance races. The final outcome will probably depend on certain "toss-up" events, like the broad jump, hurdles, dash, and pole vault...
...sleuthing job breeds special techniques. The older film gets, the worse its stench. Says Daniel Jones, chief film scout for NBC's Project 20: "I go into an old film vault like a truffle hound. I go to the cans that smell worst first." Then he dumps water on them against the common risk that the old film may burst spontaneously into flames...
...house was not always Gothic; the soaring arch and ribbed vault were daring innovations in the 12th century. The lights and lines of the church interiors shown on the following pages may be as revolutionary as Gothic architecture once was, may seem distractingly unchurchly to worshipers for whom religion and tradition go necessarily hand in hand. But each day's worship-and each generation's-also has an immediate, here-and-now quality; all over Europe new churches are going up that are inspired by this immediacy of religious faith. Their builders, like modern U.S. church architects (TIME...