Word: bump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second half, the Jayvees got an early break when Jack Farley recovered a fumble on the schoolboys' 15-yard line. A neat reverse by Bart Harvey moved the ball to the 3, and two bucks notted the second score. Bump Hadley tallied, and Bob Fisher converted for the second time...
...Under the Rural plan, a withholding tax on next year's incomes (which almost everyone agrees is a good idea) would not bump into the hideous fact that most U.S. taxpayers would also be struggling to pay taxes on 1942 income...
Owner Riddle has planned no birthday celebration; he had a big one four years ago when Big Red was made an honorary citizen of Lexington. To thousands and thousands of racing fans, whose hearts used to bump faster at the mere mention of Big Red's name, this passover will seem a crying shame...
Treatments. In Omaha, firemen driving a nine-year-old girl to a hospital to have a piece of candy removed from her throat went over a bump, which did the trick. In the same city a doctor pulled down a ten-year-old boy's eyelid preparatory to operating for the removal of a b.b. shot. The shot rolled...
Whooping out of a tavern in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y. at 3:30 a.m., four high-school-age boys hopped into a jalopy and set off up broad North Avenue. Soon they sighted an older friend driving another car and began to play. Weaving around, they managed to bump their friend's car twice-and caromed into a tree. All four boys were killed...