Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarters. Down along 650 feet of deck raced 1,300 warrant officers, petty officers, sailors, Royal Marines to jam themselves on the tiny stern deck abaft the anti-aircraft guns. A petty officer with a megaphone scrambled to the top of the stern range finder. "By the numbers, jump!" he bellowed. "One-two-three-HIPE!!" As one man. 1,300 seamen sprang in the air to land with a shattering crash directly over the cabin of "Ginger" Boyle...
average And you see what a jump he made...
...Government. Cheap to produce, most of this oil is drilled on the shores and in the bottom of a long arm of the sea known as Lake Maracaibo, is carried to refineries in Dutch Curagao and Aruba by a fleet of special shallow-draught "baby" tankers able to jump the treacherous sandbar at the mouth of the lake. Three great oil companies share most of this trade: Royal Dutch-Shell, Standard of New Jersey, Gulf. Before NRA, Manhattan motorists were more apt to ride on Venezuelan gasoline than not, for it is cheaper to bring it by sea from Caracas...
...pier to tell her his good news, he learns she is not traveling alone. As he throws open his window, Lawyer Simon hears a noise behind him. It is his faithful secretary (Bebe Daniels). A moment later the telephone rings with news of a new case. He does not jump...
...multiple event in the following order: 100-metre dash, running broad jump, shot put, running high jump, 400-metre dash, high hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, 1,500 metre...