Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broad Jump. A tiny Japanese flag was posted 26 ft., 2½-in. from the takeoff. That was to mark the world's record of Chuhei Nambu, but Nambu could not reach his flag last week. Loud "Banzais" came from a crowd of Japanese sailors in the north grandstand when he got near it with 24 ft., 5¼ in. A tall Negro from the University of Iowa, Edward L. Gordon, got closer and won with 25 ft. ¾ in. It was the first major event that did not set a record...
...Step & Jump. Light on their feet and much given to eccentric motions of the body, the Japanese naturally excel in such oddities as hopping and skipping. Mikio Oda was champion in 1928. Little Chuhei Nambu, taped at the ankles and limping from his exertions in the broad jump, won again last week with a new world's record of 51 ft., 7 in. while Sol ("Happy") Furth, U. S. hopper who crossed the U. S. twice to compete in the Olympics, finished sixth. In Tokyo, street bands played the national anthem "Kimigayo...
...Grain Price Jump...
...Winner of third place on the hop, step & jump team at the final U. S. trials in Palo Alto last fortnight was Levi Casey of the Los Angeles A. C. Last week the American Olympic Committee barred Hopper Casey from the U. S. team for "reasons best known to the Olympic Committee and the athlete himself." In his place they chose Sol ("Happy") Furth, hop, step & jumper of the Millrose A. C. On his way home to Gardiner, Maine, happy Hopper Furth did not learn of his selection till he arrived. He wired the Olympic Committee for funds, promptly started...
Soaring is necessarily confined to regions where hills & valleys provide barriers over which the prevailing winds must jump, causing sustained updrafts; or where plowland, woods & water heat and cool the wind, cause rising convection currents. A skilled pilot may soar for hours from ridge to ridge, now & then picking out an arid patch of ground over which he can climb a rising flow of warm air as he would a circular staircase. A high development of the sport is "cloud-hopping," "hooking on" beneath a cumulus cloud, which always indicates warm air, and riding it for miles. Similarly an advancing...