Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief, he selects a hapless youth just in Manhattan from Chillicothe with $22,000 in the bank. Two wolves of the stage jump at him and drop away with the bankroll in their jaws. He becomes a partner in their play, Her Lesson; sees it fail miserably at the first performance in Syracuse; buys it in a fit of anger; and makes it a wild success on Broadway. Coincidental possibly, is this plot; life, particularly theatrical life, is not like that. No one knows it better than Mr. Kaufman...
Soon after the next kick the first team again got the jump through Kilgour who smothered a scrub kick five yards behind the goal line. The Seconds kicked out and the first team got the ball on the 40-yard line. Miller made one of his smashing runs off tackle for 10 yards and a first down. This was followed by a pass from Cheek to Miller which netted another 15 yards. The ball was rushed to the 10-yard line and Crosby took it over the goal on a line plunge. Cheek missed his attempt at goal from placement...
...other hand investment in road and equipment increased from $354,486,370 to $494,529,203, a jump...
...taxes" have declined from $37,253,092 to $28,122,715. "Amortization of patents" was $183,028 in 1923 and $185,138 last year. Meanwhile "surplus"-the freak item of the whole statement-has increased from $442,041,081 to the colossal sum of $542,476,496-a jump of over $100,000,000 in a single year...
Picture a schoolroom full of seated children, all tense, eyes forward, on the alert. Teacher sits tensely too, watching them breathlessly. Suddenly Teacher cries a sharp command. The children spring to their feet, jump up and down, leap on their chairs and desktops, run, scream, yell, pull hair, bleat, catcall, caterwaul, whistle, shout, gibber, bang fists, stamp feet, kick out, fall down, scramble around. Seeing the pandemonium slacken, Teacher joins the spectacle, waves arms, shouts, yells, halloos, squeaks, bellows...