Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...childhood there need be no such fear for her or for her health. She will have learned balance, kept her spine straight, and strengthened her abdominal and thoracic muscles as well as those of her legs. She can keep her seat in a walk, amble, trot, canter, gallop or jump, even in the English saddle with its low pommel and cantle. In the McClellan saddle of the U. S. Army or the cowboy saddle of the ranches, she will have even a more secure seat, as can testify famed Rodeo Rider "Texas" Guinan, now boisterous hostess of a Manhattan supper...
...poetic philologist. Give him a simple declarative idea and he will repeat it to you in a dozen new guises, tricked out in quotations, skipping in humor, prone in absurdity or radiant with glamour. It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest) and "Unborn Words." The last named is- to use its own theory illustratively -deluciatingly quippant...
...games Saturday night the following men have been entered; Shot put, Coleman, Fordyce, Guarnaccia, Millen, Potter and Pratt; high jump, Beal, Hollis, Jenney, Jones and Renouf; 600-yard run, Dayenport, Hall, Kane, Kobes and Koch; 1000-yard run, Boyce, King and Ryan; K. of C. mile, Haggerty, Tibbets and Watters; hurdles Ballentine, Clarke, Greenslet, Henrich, Jones, Learson, Weinstein; Two mile run, Luttman; University relay, Broome, Dunn, Hunneman, Kane, Lundell, O'Neil, Rogers, and Watters; Freshman relay, Coleman, Dorman, Dunn, Hulgman, O'Connell, Sheehan, Smith, Tupper and White; 40-yard dash, Burns and Miller...
...year men started fast and from the opening whistle were never in danger. The fast short passing attack worked smoothly and the winners wove their way through the Cushing guards for numerous attempts close under the back boards. Filoon, the rangy Freshman pivot, held a slight advantage in the jump at center and succeeded in getting the tip off to his team mates on a majority of the plays...
...Welfare Island (off Manhattan), one Rev. Joseph J. McGowan saw a victim of sleeping sickness, one Amiel Schul, jump into the East River. The priest gave his spectacles to a young man who volunteered to guard them, tore off his overcoat, leaped into the water, saved the life of the gurgitating Schul. On shore, surrounded by congratulators, he looked around for his glasses. They had been stolen...