Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus does a southern churchman suggest a new criterion for the eternal masculine. By advocating the wholesale growth of hirsute appendages as the final hedge about manhood--the final hazard for women to jump in her pursuit of virility, the bishop, insures himself a place in the category of reforming saints. At last a defender of the faith has been found--a crusade under the flag of "man and superman." But unfortunately for the contention of the bishop, there was buried last month--though not in Carolina--a lady whose sole attraction and main achievement had been a luxuriant beard...
Three events in the University Handicap track meet were run off yesterday. Honors in the high-jump went to E. T. Wakefield '27, who cleared 5 feet 9 inches, with a four-inch handicap. Second place was taken by Charles Jenney '26, while third ended in a tie between S. B. Jones '26, and R. F. Knight '28, who were stopped, at 5 feet 7 inches...
Jones again placed when he took first place in the broad jump, clearing a distance of 22 feet with a handicap of 15 inches. D. A. Lomasney '28 and R. F. Knight '28 followed, with 21 feet 9 inches and 21 feet respectively...
...thoughtful student need hardly ask himself if the charges are true. To read them is enough to carry conviction that the writer saw with unusual clearness the principle failings of college students, taking them in a jump the country over...
...excuse given by the Government estimators for the sudden recent jump in their cotton figures, is "the September rains, which have sensationally improved prospects in regions of the cotton belt harassed by drought, especially in Texas." Indeed, private estimates of the coming crop have experienced similar (though lesser) increases for the same reason. But on the announcement of the last Government estimate, cotton prices on the New York Cotton Exchange broke $8 a bale to the lowest figures this year, and cotton traders are just now inclined to speak of Government estimators and statisticians in terms completely uncomplimentary...