Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college track team. Among these is John Crowley, of the Roxbury School in Cheshire, Connecticut, who has attained renown in interscholastic circles as a weight man and jumper. He has heaved the 12-pound shot 51 feet 9 inches and the discus well over 140 feet. He can high jump 5 feet 9 inches and has covered over 20 feet in the broad jump. J. S. Birge also of Roxbury School has stepped the 100 in 10 seconds flat and has been clocked in the furlong in 22 seconds...
...lovelorn Bobbie returned to the carnival tents. Then the tarnished little dancer who had the misfortune to return his love also had the courage to save him from herself. She had failed to disgust him by her appearance at the smoker. This time she went up for a parachute jump, came down dead. At last Bobbie could go away from the clamor of grind-organs and bawling voices...
...taxi (15? the first quarter mile, 5? further quarter miles). This landmark was last week fated to disappear. For cabmen, already handicapped by an increase in cab insurance, found themselves faced with the additional hazard of a gasoline tax. It therefore appeared probable that cab rates would jump from 30? to 35? for the first mile, from 20?to 30? for succeeding miles. Thus a five mile taxi rider would forfeit $1.55 instead...
...season the quota of 400 for the first-year class was reached and a limit of 500 was set for this year and was exceeded by 22. This year also saw the number of Harvard graduates registered in the first-year class jump from about...
Lincoln Fogarty adds to Brown's strength by his phenomenal ability in the javelin throw. He has a decided advantage over T. G. Moore '29, the foremost Crimson thrower. Carney, the leading Bruin threat in the broad jump, has been doing 23 feet lately...