Word: hops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rope jumping is an innovation this year added to the regular morning calisthenics which are now a part of the training. The ropes are passed out at the end of the setting up exercises and even the 230-pound guards are compelled to learn to hop and skip rope again as a muscle loosener...
...kangaroo and a flea are much the same. They both jump. But a kangaroo has a certain nobility and a flea at times can be most annoying. It is the same with Art and Science. They both hop all over man and his world. But Art is conveniently flattering to man and Science can be most uncomplimentary. Art makes us bare forked animals the protagonists of the great drama of life. Science puts us in our places. That is why genealogy is an art. It takes a whole family tree to make a man, What could be better calculated...
Polar exploration is popular this summer. Captain Roald Amundsen, the Norseman who reached the South Pole first, will hop off from Wainwright, Alaska, June 21, in an attempt to fly over the North Pole to Spitzbergen...
...Third Base Thatcher. Won't the girls be wild about you at the "hop" tonight...
...third spring football practice of the season yesterday, a new system of conditioning exercises was innovated by Coach Campbell. All the backfield candidates were made to run in a circle, jump every third step, roll on the ground, hop, first on one foot and then on the other, walk holding onto their ankles, turn forward and backward somersaults, and finally, run at a quick pace, bent double with arms folded...