Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lieut. E. H. Barksdale, 29, World War "Ace"; at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio in an airplane crash. Once Lieut. Barksdale parachuted to safety when the "flipper" (tail surfaces) of his plane left the ship. Again, this year, he jumped after the wings came off the fuselage in which he was seated. Last week F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War in charge of Aviation (TIME, July 12) saw Pilot Barksdale's plane go into a tail spin at 2,000 ft.; saw him jump, open his 'chute; saw the silken shrouds foul in the struts...
...halls. Its 575 pages are more simple, vivid and downright readable than the average run of best-seller fiction, not excepting the direct quotations from philosophic works, which are invariably well chosen to promote clarity and to demonstrate flavors. As a textbook for classrooms it has obvious shortcomings - the jump from Aristotle to Bacon; the skimming of Descartes and Hume. But it is something of a service to the unphilosophical public to have published such a book just prior to the convening [in September, at Harvard (TIME, April 5)] of the first International Philosophical Congress ever to be held...
...peasant's son, a bad boy at school, at college a passionate disciple of Professor Masaryk, later a starveling pamphleteer at Paris, Dr. Benes was one of the first men to guess which way the World War would jump...
...jump of 26 points, the largest of any week this season, in the Crimson batting average is the result of two victories won by scores of 10 to 1 and 5 to 1 over Princeton and the Alumni. The individual members of the nine profited in their batting averages as greatly as did the team average. The present figure of .280 is the highest the team has had so far this year. The helding mark was also on the rise, only two errors being recorded in the two games played in the past week, the team average jumping three points...
King of Leland Stanford leaped over the bar in the high jump, cleared safely, won the event at 6 ft. 5 1/2 in., capturing the honor of another new record. That distance is as high as some doorsills...