Word: jump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following events are scheduled: high and low hurdles, 3 o'clock; broad jump, 3:20 o'clock; 100-yard heats, 3:30 o'clock; medley relay, 8:45 o'clock; 100-yard finals, 4 o'clock; mile run, 4:10 o'clock; mile relay (four sprints), 4:25 o'clock; high jump, 4:35 o'clock...
...people have learned not to ask or reason why, but the six-and-a-half-hour official radio shutdown-presumably for repairs-was seized upon by Germany's Freedom Station, a portable radio transmitter run by daring anti-Nazis who at the risk of their lives keep one jump ahead of the Gestapo or secret police. With supreme audacity the Freedom Station opened up in the early morning, broadcast as a straight news bulletin that the Allies had just agreed to an 18-day armistice, that the "Chamberlain-Churchill Cabinet" had resigned, that King George VI had abdicated...
When a syphilitic has harbored spirochetes for 15 or 20 years, they finally, migrate to his brain or spinal cord. He finds that his knees buckle under him, his hands jump, he cannot turn or close his eyes without falling. Faced with madness or paralysis, he is generally willing to undergo any heroic measure to set his world straight again. One of the best treatments for neurosyphilis (including tabes dorsalis, general paresis) is injections of tryparsamide, a penetrating arsenic compound. Tryparsamide has one tremendous drawback: it sometimes injures, sometimes destroys, the optic nerve, produces flickering vision, a narrow range...
...band prefers one sort of rhythm--a style of jump that starts very softly and lightly and ends by tearing the all gently down. Fats himself plays fine rhythm and occasionally takes off on solo flights that are just as good as anything he has ever done. Plus the fact that he puts on a killer of a show all during the evening, busting all the remaining vest buttons with a little demonstration on the art of trucking at the end of the show...
This cheerful earful accounted for only part of Detroit's optimism. To most U. S. motormakers 1940 looked great. Some guestimated that 1940 output would jump 15% above 1939. With new cars priced a little lower than 1939's (but facing possible upward revisions), and with the public going strong for the advance models and ordering more, Detroit was sure its new four-wheel debutantes would not be left on the shelf...