Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emerged from the meet indisputably the ablest all-around track athlete currently functioning in the U.S. His records: 20.3 sec. for the 220-yd. dash (old record: 20.6 sec.); 22.6 sec. for the 220-yd. low hurdles (old record: 23 sec.); 26 ft., 8¼ in. for the broad jump (old record: 26 ft. 2½in., set by Chuhei Nambu of Japan in 1931). His tie: 9.4 sec. for the 100-yd. dash...
...page. Christened James Cleveland Owens, he became Jesse when a teacher at Cleveland's Fairmount Junior High School to whom he gave his initials mistook them for his first name. He was too shy to correct her. Before he left high school he had won the U.S. broad-jump title, run 100 yd. in 9.4 sec. The 100-yd. world record, set by Southern California's Frank Wykoff in 1930, has never been broken but it has been tied so frequently that until this spring it appeared closer than any other to a final definition of the speed...
...last five years athletes like DeHart Hubbard, Eddie Tolan, Ralph Metcalfe, Ben Johnson, Eulace Peacock have made it apparent that Negroes can jump farther and run short distances faster than whites. Last week onetime Yale field Coach Albert McGall suggested a reason which sounded more likely than those usually proposed by his confreres: in Negroes, os calcis (heel bone) juts out farther at the back of the foot than it does in whites, gives them better leverage...
...with her lover on a hotel terrace in the Dolomites, archly deserts him at a mountain railway station, wistfully marries him in a London registry office and, in a scene bristling with angry understanding, advises his brother's silly inamorata not to poach on her preserves. The water jump in this extraordinary chronicle is reached when her preoccupied husband pushes her off the stage on which he is rehearsing the ballet she has slaved to enable him to write, just after her baby by a former marriage has died in a charity hospital...
...treated to such routine performancs as a 9.5 100 yard dash, a high hurdle race which lied the world's record at 14.2, a toss of 206 feet in the javelin which was good only for fourth place, 219 feet winning the event, and a 6 foot 7 inch jump. 52 feet was the best distance in the shot...