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Word: jump (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Y.M.C.A meet tomorrow, seven Harvard men will compete: Capt, Mark Tuttle in the mile Jim Foley and Ed Swett in the two mile, Jack Noble, Glenn Schultz and Cawley in the halfmile, and Cliff Wharton in the high jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CINDERMEN IN Y.M.C.A MEET | 6/2/1944 | See Source »

Noble and Chubb took thirds in the 880 and 440, respectively. In the hammer throw, the Crimson's lone entry Cornish, captured first place. Madison was second in the javelin, and Cliff Wharton took third in the broad jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CINDERMEN IN Y.M.C.A MEET | 6/2/1944 | See Source »

...mumbled the Negro mess attendants manning an antiaircraft gun; they kept on firing. A19-year-old steward's mate with a broken leg dragged himself back to his post with them. Only when two planes had been shot down and the decks were awash did the men jump into the oily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Landsale's End | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Paulette Goddard, well-gammed gamin of the cinema, was back in Manhattan from an eleven-week, 38,000-mile U.S.O. Camp Show tour. In the CBI (China-Burma-India) war theater, where she was the first U.S. woman entertainer, Paulette had a narrow escape: at the jump-off field in Burma the weather looked dirty, so the pilot who had won in a lottery (TIME, March 13) the right to take her over the Hump decided to wait; that night another plane crashed in the Himalayas. Tabbed "Madame Cheesecake" by the G.I.s, she was given a scroll by vinegary Lieut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Troubled | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Other Mikkolamen to finish in the running were: Walston Chubb, third in the 440, Glenn Schultz, fourth in the 220, and Cliff Wharton, fourth in the high jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Tracksters Capture Third Place In Boston Meet | 5/9/1944 | See Source »

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