Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Green came back for a first in the broad jump with a leap of 23 feet, 11 inches, and later avenged his hurdles defeat when he led Philbrow to the tape in the last event of the meet, the 220-yard hurdles. Quoting the "Daily Mail" for what it is worth. "It was a thousand pities that a bad start prevented Pilbrow from winning the last event--the low hurdles--and so giving victory to Oxford and Cambridge. Green, however, got a 'filer.' Although Pilbrow sprinted wonderfully well, he could not get on terms...
...Hall topped Radman of Yale by two inches for a first in the high jump, but failed by four inches to equal his records of the spring track season. He cleared the bar at 5 feet, 10 inches but missed at 6 feet...
...Newport, N. H., twelve skiers jumped on pine needles instead of snow. One Jack Holden of Putney, Vt. made the best jump-31 feet...
...Kansas City, Mo. newspapers, James W. Stobaugh advertised: "TO WILD DRIVERS. I no longer shall make my car jump sideways, backwards, do flip-flop curves, etc. to get out of the way. If you see Missouri 3-167 coming down the street just keep in your proper place and you will have no broken headlights, smashed fenders or broken windows. My nerves are worn to a frazzle...
Tullio Carminati is an Italian nobleman who meets Ida Lupino on top of the Eiffel Tower from which he is doing his best to jump because Miss Ellis, a cafe singer, has refused to marry him. James Blakeley, looking for Ida Lupino, his fiancee, enlists the help of Lynne Overman, magnificent as a member of the Sûreté. Things build to a spacious and impressively scored wedding night in a chateau with a large cast of serfs singing nuptial choruses regardless of the fact that neither woman is with the right man, and neither is married...