Word: jump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong objection to the tree was that it offers no window from which to jump. As a compromise, the Committee on Arrangements has agreed to have a ladder handy...
What took place in Manitoba Parliament Building was a newspaperman's nightmare-the awful thing that sometimes happens to newspapers that jump the gun. As Governor Stassen and his lady stepped into line to do their handshaking, a guard tapped the Governor on the shoulder, asked him to step aside. The Governor, his face as red as his hair, handed the guard a card. The guard sent it to Manitoba's Premier John Bracken, who was standing beside the King and Queen. Before the card reached the premier an aide took it, gave it one glance, laid...
With the exception of the substitution of a three-mile for a two-mile run, the track events in the meet will not differ from American distance. The field events, however, will be pared down to broad jump, high jump, pole vault, and shot put, criminating the discus, hammer and javelin thrown...
...Macdonald in the 220; Jim Lightbody and Franny King in the 440; Al Hanlon in the half mile; Ros Brayton in the mile; Gene Clark in the two-mile; Don Donahue in the high and low hurdles, and Roger Schafer in the lows; Captain Bob Haydock in the high jump; Bob Partlow in the broad jump; Fred MacIsaan in the vault; and George Drowning and Howle Mendel in the shot...
Warner Bros., which got the jump on the industry by introducing talkies in 1927, has since scored as a pacemaker in gangster films and biographies, is now the spearhead of Hollywood's biographical thrust. Some Warner projects: Paul Muni in The Life of Beethoven, James Cagney in The Story of John Paul Jones, biographies of Knute Rockne, John Dillinger, Hitler-baiting Pastor Martin Niemoller...