Word: hops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brattle Hall yesterday afternoon, Oswald Twittleberg '38 hopped to a thrilling one-lap victory to win the all-collegiate hopscotch championship of New England. Because this is the second consecutive year that the Crimson hoppers have won the meet, a petition is being circulated demanding that hop-scotch be made a major sport...
...near Ellensburg, Wash., he found "two handfuls of slimy, muddy substance." Few minutes after he had put this muck near a stove, it came apart, turned out to be six drowsy frogs. He took them home, where during the next two days they gradually sat up and began to hop, croaked loud enough to keep Blaster Jordan & wife awake nights...
When the date balked at going to the Yardling hop, Bruck did a little checking...
Reading eyes do not move continuously from left to right. They hop. The number of words they grasp in one hop is called the span of recognition. This span for the average efficient college reader is 1.2 words; a very few persons can grasp as many as five or six words at once. At the end of the hop there is a pause, while the words register on the brain; 94% of reading time is spent in these "fixations." Sometimes the eye goes back over words it has already scanned. These are regressions. To read rapidly it is necessary...
...Woodman" ("What do we chop when we chop a tre-e-e? Buckets for the well, poles for American Tel. and Tel. . . . The better mouse trap, the movie mag, the mast to hoist our country's flag . . . that's what we chop when we cha-ha-ha-hop a tree"). Submarine D-1 (Warner Brothers). Behind an array of such box-office buoys as sailors named Butch, Sock and Lucky (Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Frank Mc-Hugh), Warner Brothers demonstrate the advances that have been made in undersea safety since the disasters that befell...