Word: klopstock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throw of 53 ft. 2¾in., set a new intercollegiate shot-put record. Second place in the same event went to Gordon Dunn. Dunn and Lyman also placed first and second in the discus throw. Two more spectacular firsts-Blackman's in the 400-meter run, Klopstock's in the 200-meter hurdles-gave Stanford the bulk of her points, 35¼, for the title, to Yale's 25½. California's five-man team was third with 20. Two firsts by Bob Kiesel (100-meter and 200-meter sprints), piled up half of California...
Despite the fact that Harvard headed the list of qualifiers, Stanford's Cardinals last night remained a firm favorite to capture the meet and thus complete a 10-year hold on the title by the Pacific coast. One of the most unusual upsets was the dramatic failure of Sam Klopstock, Stanford's favorite in the high hurdles and the defeat of Dick Hardy of Cornell, defending champion in the 100-metre dash...
...stirrings of a culture soon to be born. First there was Frederick, Frederick about whom the German pride could center. Lessing came, and for an embryonic theater created new ideals, the ideals forgotten since the days of Aristotle, ideals realized by Shakespeare alone of all moderns. Goethe, Schiller, Klopstock, Germany had her great century. Then it was over. The bourgeois, the Junkers, the Army, they were the Germany of the nineteenth century. Spake Zarathustra: "Now do we desire--the Superman to live...