Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wajda said, "slapped the raft with their tails and we were afraid it would overturn." Benton began to grow weak. "On the 24th day he died and we put him overboard, mumbling what prayers we could remember. . . . Then Bancroft started to go out of his mind. ... He tried to jump. . . . I grabbed him . . . and we rolled around. . . . The raft lurched and he went over. I was too weak to try to save...
...Princeton drops its remaining encounters, the Harvard Varsity will still trail the Orange by half a game. It is expected that if final standings are that close some arrangement can be made to play off the now-postponed Dartmouth bill. Financial problems will be the most difficult hurdle to jump on this problem...
...Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, the Battle of Britain might have to be won on the ploughed fields of an island traditionally never more than a hop, skip & amp; a jump ahead of starvation. Into the fields last week Britain sent all her schoolchildren, rich & poor alike. The farming problem was acute...
...High jump: Pete Garland (H); Dean Hennessy (H); Hogan Yancey (Y). 5 feet, 10 inches...
...Garland shared honors with speedster Frank Coolidge, who collected 13 points by virtue of his 10-second winning performance in the 100, a 22 flat clocking in the 220 to take that event equally handily, and a 21 foot leap to gather in a second place in the broad jump...