Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given the FDIC a raised the maximum guarantee for deposits from $2,500 to $5,000 beginning July 1. Deposits insured total $15,700,000,000 belonging to fifty-six million accounts in 14,000 banks. This week under the $5,000 maximum, insured deposits will jump considerably. The Federal Government sidestepped because they would have necessitated a large scale reexamination of banks. Another reason given was that FDIC wanted to develop a more equitable system of assessing banks for the permanent guarantee...
...school of literary and artistic soaks were swilling nightly in various New York barrooms. Nevertheless, we have read a couple of the recent essays tossed off by Mr. DeCasseres in which he qualifies as a literary man by telling how well he knew, the literary big-shots, and we jump with astonishment at the suggestion that he is in any way an apologist for "our institutions." We understood from him that the institutions of this nation of Philistines were beneath his contempt. He made us certain of it, because he had read Nietzsche and "comparative history," whatever that...
...scholarship itself offers an interesting and valuable chance for a man to go to Germany and learn about Hitlerism from its sources. Almost anybody would jump at such an opportunity. The main problem, which has raised its ugly and leering head concerns the qualifications of the donor. It is fairly obvious that a college should not accept gifts from an Al Capone if only on moral grounds: so the aims of Germany must be scrutinized since Dr. Hanfstaengl represents what Germany stands...
Damned things of his own were on the mind of Japan's bluff War Minister Senjuro Hayashi last week. Whenever he walked into his official residence he began to jump at his own shadow. For the last two War Ministers have been attacked mysteriously by illness while living in that house...
...Rabbits got the jump on the Blue men with two victories at the very start, but then began to weaken when Lawrence N. Stevens '36 and Laurence D. Dawes '35 were forced to bow to their opponents in closely contested matches. However, the victories of Abram T. Collier, II '34 and Henry C. Brooks '36 turned the tide to Leverett's favor, and gave the House champions victory...