Word: jump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actually drafts the Congress' masterpieces of unintelligible taxation is the legislative counsel to the House of Representatives, Middleton Beaman. A shy, caustic genius, he has spent two decades trying to keep one jump ahead of the collective brains of the nation's ablest tax lawyers. Between Drafter Beaman and the lay members of the inner circle stands another wizard. Tax Expert Lovell H. Parker, chief of staff to the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Wizard Parker has the all important job of calculating how much revenue a tax will yield, whom it will affect and how. Great...
...high-jump drew a good deal of attention. It was won by a high school boy, Les Steers, of Pale Alto, California at 6ft. 5 3-4 in. Two Harvard jumpers competed, Guill Aertsen '40 and Bob Partlow '41, Aertsen, holder of the Freshman record at 6 ft., 1 5-8 in, cleared 5 ft., 11 in, and Partlow cleared the 6 ft., 1-4 in, mark, but failed at the next height...
...profoundly agitates thousands of pool rooms and fraternity houses throughout the U. S. Each section of the country claims superiority, and the more pretentious teams usually spend Christmas vacation on a junket trying to prove it. This year basketball fans had an additional cause for controversy: the new centre-jump rule...
Meeting in Chicago last spring the rulemakers, still dissatisfied, gave basketball the most drastic alteration in its 46-year history. It removed the after-goal centre jump, distinctive maneuver of the game. This year, under the new rule, the ball, instead of being brought to the centre and tossed up after each goal, is automatically given to the team just scored on-for a throw-in from out of bounds just under the basket. This speeds up the game, adds about seven minutes of playing time, reduces the advantages of tall fellows over short ones, results in more spectacular tries...
John Bunn. If the centre jump is the news-of-the-year in basketball. John Bunn is the man-of-the-year. John Bunn is basketball coach at Stanford. He served his apprenticeship at the University of Kansas where he played and later taught under famed Coach Forrest C. ("Phog"') Allen-within reverent earshot of Physical Education Professor James Naismith, basketball's inventor. In 1930 he took over basketball at Stanford, where the game had long been regarded as "sissy." He began to experiment with a jumpless game. Four years ago he tried it out, got Southern California...