Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University-wide registration will also eclipse past high-water marks, according to Kennedy, with an estimated total of 12,853. This spring's 12,494 represented a jump of 418 above the previous autumn...
...perpetrator was the plane's veteran chief pilot, Captain Charles R. Sisto, of Los Angeles. Captain Sisto was riding as a check pilot while another pilot, Captain John Beck, familiarized himself with the route. As the plane snored west at 8,000 feet, Sisto reached down from a jump seat behind Beck and fastened the gust lock-a device used to lock the rudder, elevator and ailerons while the plane is on the ground...
...average Manhattan gallerygoer will no longer jump and yell if confronted with an abstract maze or a surrealist swamp. But last week he had something to sigh with relief at: an exhibition as bright, pretty and woodenly realistic as a carrousel. The kale-green landscapes, rosy nudes and white-faced clowns all showed the hand of a contented craftsman. All bore a bold, neatly curlycued signature, Bombois, Clle...
These are by no means normal, peacetime figures. In 1939-40, for example, total expenses were about ten million dollars, with total income approximately the same. While expenses have increased evenly up and down the long list, the income boost has been provided primarily by a huge jump in tuition. This has resulted from the overall increased enrollment, and from hiked-up tuition fees in some parts of the University, such as the Business School. The effect on University balance sheets of a return to prewar enrollments--and the consequent reduction of income--in the fact of postwar economic conditions...
When the police pulled up in their two vehicles the intruder was still poised precariously on the ledge. They shouted to him not be attempt to jump, and he responded incoherently...