Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the project of an onslaught upon Russia (which has been feverishly strengthening the fortifications of Vladivostok). But the situation in Japan itself was critical last week. With business hamstrung by the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods, with business leaders unable to judge precisely which way the militarists would jump, even public service corporations like the Tokyo Subway Railway Co. were in acute uncertainty and fear...
...shop with samples, but a complete Fifth Avenue store." Patrons were invited to extend their charge accounts from the Manhattan store, were promised the same service, the same fashions as in town. Opening its arms to 500,000 residents of Westchester County & Connecticut?''If half a million people should jump into motors, within 40 minutes or less they'd all be at Franklin Simon's new Greenwich store"?the company made much of a free parking space for 250 automobiles in back of the building...
Pelorus Jack cleared the jump. Then, riderless, he swung wildly across the track instead of turning the sharp corner. He crowded Heartbreak Hill, the favorite. He tripped Gregalach who won in 1929 and Grakle who won last year. He blundered into six others, knocking them down. He kicked Sea Soldier (a son of Man o'War), the only U. S.-bred horse in the race. When the field gathered itself from the confusion, a scattered line instead of a close cavalcade, the favorites were out of the running. A horse called Forbra, owned by a West-of-England bookmaker...
Egremont and Forbra fought for the lead the second time around. Coming to the last fence but one, Egremont was a stride ahead but Forbra passed him at the last jump, stood off a challenge on the flat and was three lengths in front at the wire, with Shaun Goilin a slow third and five others-Near East, Aspirant, Heartbreak Hill, Annandale, Sea Soldier-plunging after them to the finish...
...dedication keys of an astrophotographic building, and turned the establishment over to Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Astronomical Observatory. The building has fireproof stacks to hold 800,000 photographic plates of the heavens. Harvard already has 400,000 such plates. They are in famed and patient Dr. Annie Jump Cannon's care. Harvard astronomers began taking occasional pictures in 1850. Every clear night for the past 40 years they have been adding to the collection until now it is a permanent record of things understood or obscure beyond the night. It is a towering compendium of dots...