Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's "A" team total time fell only eight-tenths of a second behind Dartmouth in the second series, giving it a secure second at the final count, but Sophomore Hank Bigelow, a jump and cross-country man racing for the "B" team, rivaled Ferner for the most surprising Crimson performance by ranking seventh in a field of sixty...
...than a minute later, a second torpedo blew in the stern, exploding some of the destroyer's own depth charges. Four men tried to launch a lifeboat, but it was no use: the explosions had wrecked the davits. Realizing that they would have to drop life rafts and jump after them into the numbing black water, the four sailors went to the galley and gulped hot coffee from soup ladles. From the store room they got heavy underwear and put on three suits apiece under their life jackets. Then they went overside...
...impersonated their way into, the Polish actors invite Hitler's pilots to leave the controls and come into the cabin for a word with the phony Führer. They heil the impersonator and intone: "Yes, mein Führer." Pointing to the open cabin door, he commands: "Jump!" Without hesitation or parachutes, they jump...
...Physics the number of concentrators has wavered around 50 during the past three years with 46 registered last fall. Since that time six additional concentrators have entered the field. Students taking courses in the Department also showed a marked increase at midyears, rising from 420 to 484. This jump was particularly in evidence in the elementary courses...
...earned a record $18,177,000 in 1941, 70% above the preceding year. Sales soared 197% to $180,940,000, also a record. The average U.S. manufacturer's 1941 profits were about 10% over 1940, sales about 35%. Even other big aircraft makers showed no such profit jump as Douglas...