Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are conceded a chance of winning only six points. Cornell, as in previous years, is powerful in this department and is counted on to amass a total of 23, with Dartmouth winning 16 points. The University team is expected to gain six much-needed points in the broad jump and shot put to carry it through to victory, but its chances are slim at the best. French should take second place, but here again he may be handicapped by his late start in training. Last year he won the event with a leap of 22 feet...
...three generations, the Victorian, the eighteen nineties, and the twentieth century. But only genuinely appreciated by our own age. Men like Hardy and Francis Thompson help us to bridge the sharp turns in the stream. After Thompson follow Yeats and A. E., and then it is but a brief jump to Masefield and contemporaries. Aiken and Robinson branch off but then follow quickly Ezra Pound, T. E. Eliot, Amy Lowell, John Fletcher, D. H. Lawrence and the rest. The stripes are many and twisting but the resulting Zebra seems to me just as interesting an animal as the dignified elephant...
...clock: University broad jump...
...clock: Freshman high jump...
...clock: University high jump...