Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that Sergei went to sleep. He woke to find Fyodor had done in another Nazi: "The throat had been cut in a straight line above the Adam's apple." Sergei and Fyodor went out and saw a Nazi troop train; the Germans tried to jump out, "but their bodies, bored with steel-tipped bullets . . . fluttered to the ground like insects...
Keeping pace with the accelerated output of tanks, planes, guns, U.S. technical book publishers are bringing out larger lists than ever before. McGraw-Hill has seen its number of "war books" jump 2%, 14%, 50% during the three successive years. Against the trade's 452 titles of 1939, 1942 will see the publication of at least 700 books technically concerned with the war effort. In Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., whose book department now handles approximately 3,000 technical titles, sales are five times greater than in pre-war years...
...over, went to work from his pivot post, and with his peculiar under-handed bucket shot, succeeded in either drawing two fouls or dropping a deuce almost every time he was fed. George Dillon's hook shots from the foul line helped the Crimson rise, and a one-handed jump shot by Hugh Hyde with seconds remaining in the first half put them ahead 21 to 19 at intermission time...
...relays, the Crimson came out in front in the Varsity and Junior Varsity mile runs and the Jayvee two miler, while Tufts took the "A" two-mile. The field events were solid for the home team, as Garland took the shot put and high jump. Tom Holyoke outdistanced the broad-jumpers, and Gerry Lelane tied for top honors in the pole vault...
Rube went to New York, got a job illustrating sports for the Evening Mail. One day he filled out his space with Foolish Question No. 1, showing a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he were hurt. (Answer: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business...