Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practicing with the track squad on Soldiers Field during the season, tied for first place with H. M. Howe '34, who was aided with a two-foot handicap; a 4-inch booster gave G. W. Larsen 2G a height of 6 ft., 1 1-2 in. in the high jump...
...great bounds at the start with a speed clearly geared to last to the finish. At the first mile he was four lengths in front. Brose Hover, even money favorite and last year's winner, with seasoned Crawford Burton up, took a nasty fall at the second jump, but Burton had remounted and was coming on behind. Sea Soldier was running easily in second place. Well back, though still in it, were the black & white silks of Bostonian Sumner Pingree's Soissons, ridden by Jack Skinner...
Owners who had scratched their horses were not sorry about it as they watched the field go round the four-mile 22-jump course on Charles L. A. Reiser's farm. It is no course for a brush horse; these are true U. S. fences, the hazards of a nation of timber-jumpers. It was boggy in the standing land and treacherous in the hollow. Bunching himself for a takeoff, Hubar slipped and his front legs crashed into one of those top rails no horse can take out and stay on his feet. Now Davis was taking...
...tangle of stray wires, banging against one another. Instantly Pilot Breene zoomed his plane upward, looped, spun, dove, climbed again in an effort to shake free the bombs. They still swung, knocked, banged. Pilot Breene then sped the plane inland over a wooded swamp, signalled his companion to jump, followed him an instant later. As the two officers drifted safely, slowly earthward beneath their billowing 'chutes, there was a terrific blast overhead, then a rain of metal fragments, bits of what had been an airplane...
...child he was independent, not to say ferocious. With his brother and their sister, he used to knock down their nurses, jump on them. They smashed shopwindows to get at cakes. At Trinity College, Oxford, young Richard got into plenty of trouble, was "sent down" after two stormy years. But his interest had already fastened on Oriental languages which he studied by himself with no other help than a grammar and dictionary. "He used to say that when he set out to acquire a language, he learned swear words and after that the rest was easy." Burton was big, bearded...