Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer an employer a student's services for only two days before Christmas, because one day is usually required for breaking in. Students at schools which let out at the beginning of the week are getting the jump on these jobs," Holt explained...
...surge. Captain Foster, Hugh Nawn, and Jim Bacon have been able to handle their spots with case, despite the fact that they have been moved into these positions because of injuries. The success of Bacon is especially encouraging to Coach Barnaby, as he has made a successfull one-year jump to the varsity from the freshmen...
...this point, things have gone so far that we have at most one last jump into the future. And that is to revive certain elements of the Japanese army-which, under U.S. direction, can stop the Red tide...
...some ways, he thought, U.S. students had the jump on their British counterparts. They are "more intellectually curious, more responsive to any influence, more deeply and immediately charmed by everything new . . . They seemed (and this could at times be very exhausting) almost incapable of boredom, or of more than a very surface scepticism...
...freshmen didn't outclass the Terriers, but they played a much cooler and more alert game as a team. Except for poor coverage on rebounds from the offensive board, Floyd Wilson's Yard- ling's usually got the jump on a loose ball...