Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eventually released because of tuberculosis, he will be too weak to jump this winter. His famed brothers, Birger and Sigmund, who both cleared 70 meters at last winter's meet, will also be missing. They are in Kongsvinger prison...
...west, killed 15,000 Germans in three days. Before it lay an objective the Red command would love dearly to regain: Zhitomir, which Vatutin captured last November, lost to the Germans six days later. In Russian hands, Zhitomir as well as Vitebsk could well become a springboard for a jump onto the eastern ramparts of the once great Reich...
...praised the U.S. press for not jump ing the gun, then to War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Knox, OWI Boss Elmer Davis be said: Hereafter no war information "having a security value" shall be issued in advance, on a hold-for-i'elease basis; such news will be available for printing or broadcast the moment it is issued...
Wharton captured first place in the high jump for Harvard with a height of five feet, eight inches. The Crimson distance men shut out Tufts completely in the 1000-yard run, taking first, second, and third. In the relay events they were equally successful. The sprint relay, in which each of the four men runs 440 yards, fell to the Mikkolamen, and this victory was followed by another in the medley relay of one, two, three, and four laps in succession...
Frank Sinatra's left eardrum kept him out of the Army. He made a sleeper-jump from a Boston date to one with the Army's doctors in Newark, learned that the drum was punctured, learned that he ought to get more sleep, learned that he was now 4-F, moved on to a two-week stand in Pittsburgh...