Word: jump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polite hint. By last week Austrian police, correspondents and such Government officials as have frequent contact with His Royal Highness had in fact soured on Edward. Typical comment: "He gives orders to everybody, shouts and gets furious if police, railway officials and the rest don't jump. The de luxe through express trains have to be stopped to put him down or pick him up from tiny ski stations, something neither the President nor the Chancellor of Austria would ever ask. He doesn't even spend money in Vienna. Yesterday he went shopping for jewelry all day, pawed...
...declining interest in organized sports may be overcome if the Quincy Street Bureaucracy takes a running broad jump in an effort to meet students halfway. With Student Council membership the H.A.A. will rediscover general participation in its problems and platforms. The undergraduate in whose name the Athletic Association annually collects and expends vast sums deserves to be represented. With the Student Council behind it, student opinion as a force in athletics may be re-energized and brought to that degree of vitality which it must have in a University which prides itself on a spirit of amateurism...
...free skating, in which competitors execute their own specialties, and school figures, selected by lot from 42 standard maneuvers with which all figure skaters are supposed to be familiar. Experts consider Champion Colledge's free skating repertoire more difficult than Sonja Henie's, especially her double-revolution jump which no other woman skater has ever tried in competition. Her next appearance on ice will be an exhibition at the Toronto Skating Carnival next week...
When Somerset Maugham wrote his first novels in the late 1890s they were regarded as daringly modern. These books would seem primly old-fashioned now. Still up-to-date, still a jump ahead of his popular-magazine colleagues, Maugham's stories still give the agreeably shocking sensation of telling the candid, unconventional truth. An expertly professional author, with few illusions about the world he writes of, he concocts tales that often leave a depressing brown taste in the mouth but seldom bore the palate while they are being swallowed. His latest novel-what a famous actress is really like...
...Haydock had been favored by some to win the high jump, but he only succeeded in falling heir to third place with a jump of 6 ft., 1-4 in. Bob had the satisfaction, however, of topping Eli's Badman who made no showing whatsoever. In the Quadrangular meet two weeks ago Badman barely beat Haydock out for third place...