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HANOVER N.H- Momore First missle in four jumber with two seconds on the clock last night as Dartmouth upset the Harvard men's basketball team 63-61 at the Big Green's Alumni Gym in the Ivy League openers for both teams...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Dartmouth Nips Cagers in Ivy Opener; Free Throws Seal Upset Victory | 12/2/1982 | See Source »

Cowens continued the Boston tear as he made an 18-foot jumber and followed with a left-handed hook. John Havlicek, playing inspired ball, contributed two free throws and a bucket to put Boston ten points ahead and the game out of reach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cowens, Silas Lead Celts To 110-100 Playoff Win | 4/28/1973 | See Source »

...Fletcher, 28 years old and the sole veternarian in Windsor, Vermont, and Tom Davis, age 27, and the president of a jumber company are not typical of the young men living in the ski country around the Twin State Valley area of Vermont and New Hampshire. Both are young, maried, college graduates, ambitious-and willing to take a financial risk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What It Takes To Own Your Own Ski Lodge | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

Zoologists Hubert Frings and Joseph Jumber of Pennsylvania State College observed that starlings have a special "distress call." Sneaking into a barn one winter night, the researchers caught a starling that was sheltering there and held it up by its feet. The bird gave a piercing shriek, and the other starlings fled from the barn. When the trick worked well in several barns, Frings and Jumber caught more starlings and made them shriek their distress calls into a tape recorder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Starlings in Distress | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...night last summer, at State College, Pa., where 20,000 starlings had formed a monstrous roost, Frings and Jumber set up their tape recorder under four infested trees. The starlings awoke to the nightmare sound of starlings in deep distress. They fled the haunted trees and did not come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Starlings in Distress | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

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