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Word: vaultingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mello, a three year letterman, has been an annual participant in the pole vault and stands a chance to pick up a third place in tonight's meet. Both Rev. Bob Richards and Don Laz, however, will be out to break the meet record with 15-foot vaults, while Mello will be aiming for 13 feet, 6 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Enters 17 Men In K. of C. Track Meet | 1/17/1953 | See Source »

...Mello had a good day for the Crimson, winning the pole vault with 13 feet, and the broad jump with 21 feet, 5 inches, and taking second in the high jump. Other individual winners were Bob Rittenburg in the hurdles, Alan Howe in the 600, Hal Gerry with a 10:04 two-mile run, Bob Curran with a 52 feet, 10 inch hammer throw, and Renny Little with a 2:24 thousand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Men Crush B.C. For 4th Straight Win | 1/13/1953 | See Source »

...Constitution and the Bill of Rights, temporarily kept in the Library of Congress, were put this week in their permanent home in the National Archives Exhibition Hall. Their home is a big glass showcase which, at the touch of a button, sinks slowly through the floor into a huge vault in the cellar. The 50-ton safe, a bombproof, thiefproof, fireproof stronghold with 15-in. thick walls and 5-ton armored doors will keep the historic documents as safe as the gold in Fort Knox. By day, the documents will be on exhibition; at night, they will repose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Protection, Inc. | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Today, three out of four U.S. bank vaults, and half of all private safes, are Moslers. They hold, says President Edwin Mosler, two-thirds of the world's negotiable wealth, along with such oddments as the gold spike which joined the first transcontinental railroad, a set of George Washington's false teeth and all the United Nations treaties. Mosler makes everything from a $25 insulated cashbox for householders to a $1,000,000, two-story vault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Protection, Inc. | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...they have more than tripled.) Another big sales stimulator has been the atom bomb. For such customers as the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Mosler has built a bombproof stronghold for records 30 feet below Metropolitan's Manhattan headquarters, which even a direct hit will not destroy. (A Mosler vault in Hiroshima's Teikoku Bank, only 300 yards from the center of the atom bomb's blast, was unbreached, and the bank was rebuilt around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Protection, Inc. | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

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