Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted him to preach a holy crusade, Nominee Landon offered no burning sentiments, spoke in no burning voice. Last week in accepting the Republican Vice Presidential nomination Publisher Knox of the Chicago Daily News cut loose with a red-hot attack on the New Deal which made GOPartisans jump with...
...Ohio State's dusky Jesse Owens, in what would have seemed an incredible feat had not his own record in the past two years made it seem inevitable, won three events: 100 metres, 200 metres, broad jump. No one else qualified in more than two events...
...commonest forms of preparation for a career as a champion athlete is a sickly childhood. Diver Jump's debility reached the stage where her doctor had to advise her to take up swimming when she was 11. She began high diving a year or so ago, won the women's national championship in her second try for it last week. Because her specialty is a two-and-a-half forward somersault from the 24-ft. plat- form, which no other girl in the world can do, she was handicapped in the Olympic tryouts three days later because...
...prices had gone up, that the fleet was shorthanded, Mme Toussaint cast decorum to the winds, bundled her brood into the boat, the Six Little Brothers, set off to lend her efficient aid. It was late that night before the weary fishermen returned, to watch Mme Toussaint and Jean jump over the broomstick together. And as the overworked engine of the Six Little Brothers had broken down, the bride and groom never...
...Ohio State's bullet-legged Negro Jesse Owens equaled records in the 100-metre dash, the broad jump. ¶ Indiana University's slim, robot-running Donald Lash (TIME, June 22), having clinched a place on the U. S. Olympic team the evening before with a record-breaking 10,000-metre run, set still another in the 5,000-metre championship. ¶ The University of Southern California's big-boned Harold Smallwood nosed out California's much-touted quarter-milers, Negroes James LuValle and Archie Williams, in the 400-metre race. ¶ Negro Cornelius Johnson who arrived...