Word: bump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bumping races, devised long ago because of the narrowness of the Isis (Oxford's own stretch of the Thames), are just what the term implies. Crews start two lengths behind one another, try to overtake and bump the boat ahead. During Eights Week, the college that finished Head of the River the previous year starts first; the others follow in order of their finish the year before...
...backs of a couple of envelopes. But sometimes apparent trouble is easy to solve. While working on George Abbott's Best Foot Forward, Walker was approached by Gene Kelly, who staged the dances for the show. Kelly had definite ideas. Roared he: "The orchestra should go de-bump-bump-bump, wha-ah, crash, zip, bang, de-bump, de-bump, bzzzz, wham!" It's got to be terrific, an earthquake, a tidal wave, the end of the world!" Walker nodded quietly, went back to his office and came up with the Paramount-Public-Fox finish. Kelly was beside himself...
...forging stood up, they could expect to run off only about ten gears before the die was worn out. Then they thought of burying the die in solid steel so that it could not stretch, of doing the job in five successive squeezes instead of a single bump...
Said the Chicago Herarld-American's energetic Executive Editor John A. Malloy: "We are going to raise our price from 3? to 4? and we wanted to find something to help us over the bump. We were particularly interested in improving our circulation among young women-they're pretty important these days. We hadn't had anything like a lovelorn column since Beatrice Fairfax petered out about a year...
...Bump: a sudden forward projection of the pelvic region; grind: an unabashed rotation of the same...