Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon's competition, with trials scheduled for 3.30 o'clock and finals for 4.05 o'clock. The javelin throw at 2 o'clock will see new performers given handicaps of as much as 15 feet, while the handicap in much as 15 feet, while the handicap in the high jump, set for 3 o'clock, generally varies from one to eight inches. Other events are the shot put, staged in the old cage at 3.30 o'clock, the 70-yard high hurdles at 3.45 o'clock, and the 440 yard run at 4 o'clock...
...Carnera started to get up. He then sank back and rested on one knee, finally rose eight seconds after the knock down. Sharkey, maintaining his reputation for hysterical behavior in crucial moments, seized Referee Smith, screeched that he had won the fight by a knock out, then tried to jump out of the ring headfirst. His seconds persuaded him to resume the fight. For the next eleven rounds Sharkey adopted the brilliantly aggressive style which he uses when he is confident of winning, Carnera, devoid of aplomb, countered Sharkey's punches with a dubious, weak-wristed left jab. After...
...lead wagon over dusty prairie roads, became the router, the greatest transportation expert in the circus business*. He lost his brothers and his mustache. He absorbed Barnum & Bailey and in time every important circus in the U. S. so that today every trained lion in the country must jump through hoops when John Rungeling cracks the whip. And he has assembled the largest private art collection in the U. S. with the exception of Willlaim Randolph Hearst...
...unnecessary. When the trussed and battered body of Benjamin P. Collings was washed ashore on the sands of Long Island last week (see p. 17). News and Mirror obliged by printing large, close-up pictures of the muddy corpse as it lay on the beach. That put them one jump ahead of the Evening Graphic, but not for long. That afternoon the Graphic blossomed with a full front-page photograph of the corpse on a morgue slab, posed on its side by two obliging attendants to show the hands tied behind the back. Protested Cyrus H. K. Curtis' polite...
...appeared to be over until a spectator noticed another horse, Ortlieb, standing beside the 16th fence where he had fallen. The spectator suggested to his Negro jockey, I. Wren that he mount Ortlieb, hurry in to win the $100 third prize. I. Wren tried five times to make Ortlieb jump the last fence, finally got him to "creep" over it by walking him up to the jump and shouting "giddap." He then rode in, ten minutes behind Eiderbard, while the crowd cheered and the band played "The Jolly Blacksmith." The judges decreed that the time limit for the race...