Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...break it below that figure. Thousands of shares were offered and promptly taken up at 52. A Nash post, around which practically every trader tried to crowd, was improvised on the Floor. Ever and anon some bedraggled trader would manage to squeeze from the press of bodies and jump on the seat to scream his offers. On the mob's fringe, for it was a veritable mob which left the rest of the Floor deserted, fubbers tried to make private deals at as low as 51. They wasted their petty time, for the Board of Governors does not countenance...
Lethargic folk, who have not read Admiral Lord Fisher's Memories, are sure to jump when Mr. Bakeless reminds them that as long ago as 1907 "it seemed to Admiral Fisher [then First Sea Lord] simply a sagacious act on England's part to seize the German fleet when it was so very easy of accomplishment . . . probably without bloodshed...
...averages thus obtained speak for themselves, as follows: 1877-92 1893-1903 1909-26 m.s. m.s. m.s. 100 yards 10.36 10.12 9.97 220 yards 23.10 22.50 81.58 440 yards 52.60 50.23 48.75 880 yards 2.05.30 1.59.70 1.55.90 One mile 4.46.10 4.27.80 4.20.15 Ft. In. Ft. In. Ft. In. High jump 5.08 1-4 5.11 1-2 6.02 1-6 Pole vault 9.07 1-4 11.04 1-6 12.06 1-2 Broad jump 20.10 3-4 22.07 3-4 23.05 1-4 Shot put 36.08 1-4 43.02 1-2 47.01 1-2 Hammer...
...s.140 yards .10 .09.95220 yards .21.525 .21.55440 yards .48.70 .48.80880 yards 1.54.77 1.55.85One mile 4.18.70 4.21.60 Ft. In. Ft. In.High jump 6.01 5-12 6.02 1-4Pole vault 12.06 00 12.06 9-10Broad jump 23.01 1-3 23.07 5-6Shot put 47.02 1-4 47.00 1-3Hammer...
...often, neither did it officially go to bat as often as is the case in loosely played games. The large number of free passes issued by Stanford and Small also reduces the number of times at bat credited to each player, and further aids in explaining the jump in figures...