Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stood On The Burning Deck.' Finally my bunk pals shook me out of it and we decided to go overboard. A couple of girls came up and asked?polite but excited?if we'd mind their going along with us. I said. 'Sure, help yourself to the Atlantic and jump in.' When we were in the water I don't know what happened to one of the girls but when the other seemed about ready to give up I said. 'Come on. girlie, it's only a short walk.' Then a lifeboat picked...
...Coming Rise in Gold Shares was followed two days after Britain took sterling off gold by The Course of the Coming Boom [in Britain]. Just after President Roosevelt took office Major Angas wrote The Coming Rise in Wall Street, which was followed by a 90% jump in the stockmarket. More to the point, Major Angas has been adviser to the big London stock exchange house of Myer & Co., has a short but imposing list of clients and drives a Rolls-Royce...
...Shamrock V was dismasted one day last August.* I had bought the Shamrock, Sir Thomas' last challenger. . . . The next morning Charles E. Nicholson, the designer, came to see me about a new mast. He left with an order for a challenger. . . . Endeavour goes well to windward and in a jump of sea. . . . What about her chances? How long is a piece of cord...
...pottery district of Staffordshire (Arnold Bennett's Five Towns), the slums of Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, visited Blackpool (England's Coney Island), the collieries of East Durham. Everywhere he found something to interest and perturb him. His conclusions: "You go up and down this country and what makes you jump with astonishment and delight is something that has been there for at least 500 years. ... I find it difficult to believe in the God who inspired the creators of Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult to believe in the debenture-holders who inspired the creators...
...reverse de engine, th'ew de levuh back Twenty seb'm jumbos jump'd de track, He holluhd to de fiuhman, say: "Jim, yuh better jump, 'cause two locomotives is about tuh bump...