Word: jump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seniors and ten Juniors made up the 16 who returned as lettermen: 440, Francis R. King '39, and James D. Lightbody, Jr. '40; mile, Roswell Brayton '39, and Eugene V. Clark '40; two mile, William P. Tuttle, Jr. '40; hurdles, John MacL. Johanson '39, and Mason Fernald '40; broad-jump, F. Rockwell Hollands...
People who were gullible enough to believe that it is possible for the earth to be invaded by "men from Mars" should be kicking themselves instead. They, who jump at conclusions are simple prey for war propagandists and lead others into spilling of blood...
...step in fear that a ditch, a tree, a root or a hollow might trip him. Gradually he became more & more excited when he was in groups of other horses, used to lunge and try to race. Once, when Miss Getzendaner gave the first signal at a ditch, he jumped it instead. She decided then to try to train him to jump...
...took all her patience. Main trouble was that, like blind people, he anticipated objects, and consistently hesitated on his third stride toward the jump. She worked out a group of signals: "come on," "ready," "gather for the jump," "hup" for the actual leap itself. Then she taught him to walk up and touch the jump with his breast to judge its height, canter down and turn, settle into his old, familiar stride again. Soon she had him doing high hurdles...
...from WTActivities in such important political vineyards as Kentucky, Tennessee, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. So far the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee, headed by Texas' mild-spoken old Senator Morris Sheppard, has found no fire beneath the fumes though it has kept WPA's nimble Harry Hopkins on the jump answering questions...