Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women's Olympics is determining whether or not the competitors are women. Gossip about Fulton, Mo.'s Olympic track star Helen Stephens, last week failed to produce a repetition of the embarrassment that occurred at Amsterdam in 1928 when debate about the sex of a Japanese broad jumper named Hitmoni did not end until she was ungraciously described in an official statement as "It." In Berlin famed Ted Meredith, onetime (1912) Olympic champion runner, now coaching Czechoslovakian girl athletes, related the sad case of his ablest sprinter, who qualified for the Olympics in record-breaking time, then decided...
...Long Island's Manhattan Beach, Helen Howard, granddaughter of Brooklyn Bridge-jumper Steve Brodie, did many a trim jackknife (see cut) from the high springboard in the American Athletic Union's championship trials...
Newshawks discovered that for months, when he got tired of looking at fruit flies, the geneticist had retired to a garage, put on a greasy jumper and worked on his car far into the night, hammering, welding, machining parts on a lathe. Now & then, the foreman reported, Dr. Bridges hit his thumb with a hammer. Once he had to visit a hospital to have removed some tiny bits of steel which flew into his eyes. It was Calvin Bridges' splendid eyesight which first attracted Dr. Morgan's interest in him when Bridges was a shaggy, enthusiastic student...
Certain it is that the Crimson will reap enough points to give the generally favored Cornell team a terrific run for their money. Cornell's stock, which was soaring in the middle of the week, received a decided setback when it was learned that Charles Scott, a jumper favored to win, was forced to withdraw because of a sprained ankie...
David Emerson is one of the rising skiers of the Sophomore class. Considered previously as a jumper, he beat all the second class skiers, including Captain Carter, in a time trial over the Taft Trail at Franconia and got a B rating...