Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be safe and sure. They would fly from Chicago to Milwaukee, make a courteous gesture to Leif Ericsson's statue there, go across Canada to Cape Chidley at the northernmost tip of Labrador, skip over water but in sight of land to Cape Walsingham on Baffin Island, jump across Davis Strait to Mt. Evans, Greenland. From Mt. Evans they would cross the Greenland ice cap to Angmagsalik and then over water to Reykjavik, Iceland. From Iceland they would try for Bergen, Norway, stopping at the Faroe or Shetland islands if necessary, and from Bergen to Copenhagen to Berlin...
...that its wearer is a British officer. While he is buying her something to eat in the delicatessen next door, a veiled young woman in evening dress runs away from his apartment. Her action suggests ingratitude, for a few moments before Dix had kept her from committing suicide by jumping off London Bridge. In India later she is the blonde wife of a Colonel so elderly and so gallant that when faced with the temptation of cuckolding him, an officer who comes from the right school will ask for a transfer. A playwright who comes from the right school will...
...stenographer in London, plays the part of Tessa, the composer's daughter who remembers the thundering music of mountainsides too well to endure the organized drabness of a Brussels pension. Best shot: Miss Poulton standing wearily in front of the window out of which she is going to jump before she struggles, with dismayed and frantic awkwardness, to open...
...High Jump: G. V. Wolf, Y.; G. M. Kuehn...
...such a chart a number of strong Harvard runners such as Mason in the sprints, Cummings in the 440. Porter in the half mile, Fobes in the mile and Kuehn in the high jump, and Record in the high hurdles would be looked upon as liable to improve the American team's scoring...