Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three world's records in a single afternoon in what experts agreed was the most amazing display of versatility in track & field history. Thereafter, the consensus was that for Owens to lose to anyone this year in either of his two best specialties?100-yd. dash and broad jump ?was unlikely. For him to lose in both was almost unthinkable. For him to lose in both to the same man was entirely out of the question. At Lincoln, Neb. last week, the 15,000 spectators at the national championship meet of the Amateur Athletic Union walked...
...race, in which Owens was not second but third, a stride behind Negro Ralph Metcalfe, was run in 10.2 sec., which would have been a world's record except for a soft following breeze. In the broad jump Peacock cleared 26 ft. 3 in., ? in. better than the currently accepted world's record and ¾ in. better than Owens' best last week, but 5¼ in. short of the record Owens set last...
Latest addition to the group of star Negro athletes, Eulace Peacock, like Owens, gave some indication of his abilities as a schoolboy when he won the National pentathlon in 1933. This spring Peacock did little except win the 100-metre dash and broad jump against comparatively mediocre competition at the Penn Relays. Last week was the first time he had jumped 26 ft. Son of a Union, N. J. tar tester, a competent but not brilliant student, Peacock runs without Metcalfe's finishing drive or Owens' smoothness, but with higher knee action than either. After his demonstration last week...
Meanwhile strong & healthy Benito Mussolini was having his go at Anthony Eden. The Dictator, no novice in the fine art of getting the jump on public opinion, caused announcements to be made while Captain Eden was his guest which provoked abroad such headlines as BRITISH AGREE TO LET Il DUCE RULE ETHIOPIA and REPORT PACT FOR PARTITION OF ETHIOPIA. Premier Mussolini had just raised his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano from Undersecretary to Minister for Press Relations and the Count proceeded to make good last week. Not until Captain Eden emerged from Italy did the World Press tune change...
...Ohio State's Jesse Owens: three races (100-yd. and 220-yd. dashes, 220-yd. low hurdles) and the broad jump, without being forced to break a world record; at the National Collegiate Athletic Association track meet in which he made 40 of the 401 points that gave Ohio State a total second only to the 75 1/30 rolled up by Southern California's 23-man team-at Berkeley, Calif...