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Word: jump (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woburn ski jump, perfected last December after off and on construction work by team members for over seven years, has proved a big factor in providing the team with four-event men. Halsey sees great improvement in all his cross country runners since early practices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ski Hopes Blow Hot And Cold for Carnival Meet | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

Rising to the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, the Harvard Dramatic Club took what it considers a big jump last night in choosing Irwin Shaw's "The Survivors" as its spring play. The experimental, controversial drama will be presented the week of April 20 in Cambridge's Brattle Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Picks Irwin Shaw's 'Survivors' For Anniversary Spring Production | 2/11/1948 | See Source »

...Labrador, a team of dog paratroopers made a practice jump on orders of U.S. Colonel Paul A. Zartman, Goose Bay airbase commandant. Zartman's idea: harnessed to a dogsled (which can also be parachuted), dogs can haul human chutists on difficult Arctic rescue missions. The tests proved that the dogs knew what to do with a grounded chute. Crowed an airman: "Instinctively, the dogs run to the chute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: Stooges | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...boys in Doc Evans' jazz band blew a final chord and then drifted from the stand for an intermission smoke. As the jump fans settled down to their beers, a stooped and droopy-eyed old Negro clambered up to the piano behind the chromium bar. He began a rolling boogie bass -not fast and tinny like most boogie, but low and underneath the deep, dark blues his right hand played. He played softly, staring out into the blue smoke as if he didn't care whether anyone listened. Not everyone did. But the oldtimers around Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: As Long As They Want Me | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Probable varsity point-getters: dash-J. Spivak; 1000-F. Gurley; mile-J. Cogan; 16-pound shot-D. Trimble; 35-pound weight-S. Felton, T. Cameron, R. Forsyth; high-jump-G. Harrigan; pole vault-W. Lawrence, A. Lockett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Hits Cinders in Debut With Army, Tiger | 2/7/1948 | See Source »

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