Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francis d'Assisi (1182-1226), whose seventh centenary will have world-wide celebration this year. St. Anthony is patron saint of Padua and of Portugal, the places respectively of his teachings and death and of his birth. His eloquence was so great that fishes were reported to jump out of the water to hear him. Devout clients appeal to him for the finding of lost articles. Miraculously he could cure erysipelas...
...jump from the acorns to a fairly sizeable oak tree at 10 o'clock, when Professor Hocking will introduce to Philosophy A in the New Lecture Hall the character of Bishop Berkeley, whom with the exception of Duns Scotis, Mr. Yeats considers to have been the only truly religious Irishman who ever lived. He was himself one of the great vagabonds of his century, largely because he hoped to make a fortune in the New World. If he had ever succeeded I probably would not be hearing about him this morning. Franz Liszt will follow at noon, in Music...
...fifty-eighth annual track meet between Oxford and Cambridge last week. Hyatt helped materially last year in Oxford's 6 to 5 victory over Cambridge by winning the shot put and pole vault events. This year, although Cambridge won the meet, Hyatt took two firsts, in the broad jump and pole vault, setting a new meet record in the latter event when he cleared 12 feet in an exhibition leap after having won the event at 11 feet 3 inches. The former Harvard man was the outstanding individual contestant in the meet and shared with Lord Burghley, England's foremost...
Regarded as one of the best all-around athletes at Harvard, Hyatt was for two years a star on the track team. In 1923 he won the high jump in the Yale meet although handicapped by an injury received in his Sophomore year, and in 1924 he placed in the broad jump...
...which he will be accompanied in June by Edward S. Evans, wealthy Detroit sportsman. The travel time set was 25 days. Starting from Manhattan, the Globe-racers are to fly in 30 hours to Victoria, B. C., board the Empress of Russia, fastest (8-day) trans-Pacific vessel, jump from Japan to Vladivostok in a Japanese destroyer (it is hoped), spend nine days on the Siberian railroad, fly from Moscow to Berlin, to Amsterdam, to Cherbourg, hoping to catch the Mauretania, fastest (5-day) trans-Atlantic vessel...