Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Running broad jump for women: Mlle. Mejzlikova, Czecho-Slovakia, 540 centimeters...
...Edwards dashed 220 yards in 27 seconds, a world's record. Miss Mary Lines again stood out as Europe's, if not the world's, leading woman track star by winning her four events-100-yard dash, 440-yard dash, 120-yard hurdles, running broad jump. At Brussels she once before conquered four fields in one day and was dubbed by a writer " le Paddock feminin" (a reference to Sprinter Paddock of California). America's " Paddock feminin " is Helen Filkey of Chicago. On her home heath open events for women were listed in the schedule...
...Decathlon: H. M. Osborne, Illinois A. C., 7350.11 points. ¶1220-yard dash for women: E. E. Edwards, England, 27 sec. ¶ High jump for women: Katherine Lee, Chicago, 4 ft. 10% in. ¶Broad jump for women: Helen Filkey, Chicago, 16 ft. 6% in. ¶1440-yard relay for women: Eastern team of Misses McCartie, Adams, Kirk, Fisher...
...stick on their shelves like fly paper?another which they thought would hardly pay for its binding bound to dazzling success. The publishing of fiction is a tremendous, enthralling gamble?a continual laying of bets as to which way that nervous and feline creature, Popular Taste, is going to jump. And, generally, it jumps the other way. For the average novel hardly recoups its publisher for his initial expenses?if that. Or so they tell the author. But the exceptional novel?Gosh, how the money rolls...
...51/2 According to the English custom only first places counted in the scoring. Out of six meets in the series the English universities have won three and the American three. H. M. Abrahams, Cambridge captain, won three points for the British team by taking first in the broad jump, the 100 and the 220 yard dashes. Tevis Huhn, Princeton graduate, won the low hurdles for the Englishmen giving them the one point margin of victory...