Word: jump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mentor Ulen hopes to get the jump on strong Princeton and Yale squads by this early start, Last year's Varsity swimmers didn't enter the pool until after the Yale football game...
Jobbers. To one class of U. S. citizens, however, the new act brought no pain whatsoever. The mushrooming aircraft industry greeted the news with a figurative tooting of factory-whistles: hauled out blueprints for a big war trade, prepared to jump capacity to peak-load production and tie it there. The Big Three of California plane-making-Lockheed, Douglas, North American-prepared to take on from 2,000 to 10,000 men to get out $110,000,000 worth of accumulated orders, with millions more to come. Without plant expansion the numerous California companies can build more than 700 aircraft...
...mine layer Olaf Tryggvason and a torpedo boat to watch her. Off a fiord north of Bergen, the German prize crew requested that because of a sick man aboard, it should be allowed to put in at Haugesund, 60 miles south of Bergen and last port before the jump-off into British-patrolled waters. A doctor from Olaf Tryggvason went aboard, but all he could find by way of sickness was a man who had barked his shin on a barrel. Russia had let City of Flint enter Murmansk on the unverified claim of engine trouble; cocky little Norway, having...
...When a child shows jealousy of a new baby, don't, say to him "Johnny loves baby." Give him a little extra attention, let him have a doll to jump...
...surpass the old record by two feet. MacKinnon with firsts in both hurdles and a first place tie with Pirnie in the 160 yd. dash was the high scorer of the meet, and broke the records in two of the events. Pirnie also broke the record in the broad jump, jumping...