Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only events that Yale managed to take against Jack Moakley's boys Saturday were the high jump, the broad jump, the pole vault and the 35 pound weight. The Elis will be right in the running in all of these events on Saturday, with Bill Handing, the star pole vaulter, being pretty sure of taking his event. The star Eli's principal opposition will come from the Crimson's Win Pettingell, who, while at Exeter, once beat Harding, then an Andover star. But since that time the Yale boy has stepped out and he did 13' 9" at the Millrose...
...other stars, John Castle looks good in the weight throw; he won that event with a 48.1 1-2 over Cornell, but he did a 51 foot heave in practice the other day and will be on or near the top in the Briggs Cage. Edward Ethridge is good in the broad jump, and he is going to fight it out with Dartmouth's Warren King, a 22 foot man. Cornell, despite all their sprinters, hasn't been able to turn up any good broad jumpers, and no one has come along to fill Milt Green's shoes...
...April 1792, Congress passed and President Washington signed a bill declaring: "If any of the gold or silver coins . . . shall be debased or made worse as to the proportion of fine gold or fine silver therein contained or shall be of less weight or value than the same ought to be ... through the default or connivance of any of the officers or person who shall be employed at the said Mint . . . every such officer or person . . shall be deemed guilty of Felony and shall suffer death." Today this penalty has been modified to read that if the President so decides...
...only serious problem encountered in the donation was that of transporation of the mass to Cambridge, an especially difficult task in view of the age, texture, and weight of the specimen...
...least a fair chance at Charlottesville. 125 pounder Jim Kosterollos has lost only one meet in College--to Archie Hahn, Virginia's Southern Conference Champion of two years ago. Little Bill Seigal will get the call over Chatfield at 115 pounds, is one of the best boxers at that weight Lamar has had here in Cambridge...