Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad jump Dave Ives' 22 feet 9 inches at the Yale meet is closely followed by Freshman Bob Gillette's past efforts. Dick Pfister is favored both in the discus and shot...
Rollerman Solt, who has ten children of his own, from six months to 15 years, said later: "I stood on the brake. ... I could have jumped off if it hadn't been for all those cars and children. . . . The roller was headed for a busload of school kids coming up the hill. I thought of my ten. I wondered how they would look after that roller passed over them-and I knew then I wasn't going to jump. I couldn't see how I was going to get through that mess of cars and children...
...whys and wherefores of this surprising upturn, which involved a fifty per cent jump over last year's figure, nobody knows. Back in the tinselled 'twenties, when Economics, Communism, and Astrology were relegated to the same class as occult sciences, English was a perennial favorite. Who wanted to learn about money? Everyone had plenty. And there were Bliss Perry and Copey and Kirsopp Lake and Kitty and John L. Lowes bubbling over with words of wisdom. They played to standing room only...
Came rumors of an impending crash; then it hit. Undergraduates began to wonder what all this finance business was, anyhow, and the rush to economics began. Last year, with nations preparing to jump at each other's throats, Government passed Ec to take the lead...
Meanwhile King-size cigarets multiplied like brands of beer in 1933. Hill lengthened another of his own lagging brands, Herbert Tareyton, watched its sales jump to 1,800,000,000 last year. Brown & Williamson's Wings adopted the new size, so did Spuds (Axton-Fisher), Beech-Nut (P. Lorillard), Dunhill (Philip Morris). Other makers thought up new names: Stratford (Fleming-Hall Co., Inc.), Cinclair (A. Ladis Tobacco Co.), Melowicks (Strand Tobacco Co.), etc. Out of 180,000,000,000 cigarets sold last year, the King size accounted for about...