Word: vaultingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yard dash--Liles (H), 10.2 sec.; Mile Run--Martin (H), 4:32.4; 440-yard Run--Hildreth (H), 52.2 sec.; 220-yard low Hurdles--Downs (H), 25.7 sec.; 220-yard dash--Liles, 22.3 sec.; Discus Throw--Digman (A), 123 ft., 9 in.; 880-yard Run--Cahn (H), 2.05; Pole Vault--Halaby (H), 11 ft., 6 in.; Broad Jump--Liles (H), 21 ft., 2 in.; High Jump--Kean...
...scholars' work. Many were called home, and the manuscripts themselves were packed away in 36 cases and locked up in the Ottoman Bank at Amman, Jordan, from which they were returned to Jerusalem for study only last month-some of them slightly moldy and spotted from the damp vault. (Complete photographs of the manuscript material exist, but direct examination is necessary to the delicate process of matching and fitting fragments...
...payoff bet is Ben Schriever's ICBM, and Schriever knows how to play for high stakes. One Friday a month, a day his staff calls Black Friday, he summons his key men into his project control room in WDD headquarters in Inglewood. This room is a massive vault whose walls, floors and ceilings are built of 6-in. concrete reinforced by steel; its treasures are guarded when the room is empty by two opaque glass hemispheres embedded in the ceiling, so sensitive that they will register an intruder's breath and sound the alarm. In this room Schriever...
...field events, the varsity has practically conceded both the pole vault and the broad jump, for Joel Cohen, who placed second at Yale, will not attempt to broad jump, and Army has a 13-foot pole vaulter. John deKiewiet would win the high jump, while in the shot and weight, the Cadets are not that far ahead of the Crimson's Jim Doty, John Du Moulin, and Pete Harpel. If they can pick up points, the meet could swing in Harvard's favor before the relays...
...Olympians Bob Gutowski and the Rev. Bob Richards matched each other leap for leap in the pole vault, saw the bar push steadily past 15 ft. At 15 ft. 6 in., Richards sailed over easily. Gutowski felt himself brush the bar, watched it bounce off the standards and looked up from the sawdust pit to see it settle in place. Both failed at 15 ft. 9 in. For Richards the first-place tie was his eleventh consecutive Millrose victory...