Word: vaultingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stuyvesant (1592-1672), last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam; in his 20-odd-room Manhattan town house. Four days after his death, Stuyvesant was buried in the family crypt at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bouwerie, where 85 other Stuyvesants and Stuyvesant connections are entombed. Then the vault's massive bronze door (inscribed "Peter Stuyvesant-His Vault") was closed forever...
Future Buying. In Chelsea, Mass., relief officials discovered that a 68-year-old welfare recipient had used his $80 monthly payments to buy a $1,200 casket, a $175 concrete burial vault...
...first thing the average man will notice on walking from the marble staircase into this lofty vault is a superfluity of girls. Cliffedwellers, stationed at the numerous tables, sit waiting for their prey. Some pretend to study weighty tomes; others idly thumb the pages of Real Screen Romances, patiently awaiting the right moment. Skeptics, doubting the efficacy of their "Got a match?" technique, are likely to become social theorists on analysis of the Reference Room marriage record...
Other varsity scorers were Pete Dow, a strong third in the 100-yard dash after a bad start. Bob Curran took third in the hammer with a throw of 157 feet 1inch. Bob Mello cleared 13 feet in the pole vault for one of his best jumps this year, as he tied for third...
Mello also got another second place in the pole vault, with the Ells' Jack Donegan, a sophomore, clearing the bar at 13 feet for a first place. Mello's best effort was 12 feet 6 inches...