Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inexperienced field men to the fore in the three events of the annual winter handicap track meet held on Soldiers field Yesterday. The majority of the events are slated for today and should attract University letterman, graduate students, and freshman. Yesterday Freshmen did well throughout, excelling in the high jump, which resulted in a quadruple tie between three Freshmen and a Sophomore...
...results of the shot put and broad jump were equally surprising. G. F. Bennett '32, with a two and one half foot handicap allowance, hurdled the weight 43 feet, 10 inches, outdistancing J. H. Dean '34, promising Crimson weight thrower, by a foot. J. Van R. Strong '34 led the field of broad jumpers, his five foot handicap boosting him to an excellent distance, 23 feet, 4 1-4 inches...
...include innumerable tribes and sects. Italy's troublesome Senussites are a rambunctious Arab sect founded by Sidi Mohammed ben Ali ben Es Senussi el Khettabi el Hassani el Idrissi el Mehajiri, who was born in Algeria with an urge to militant reform. He ordered his two sons to jump off a palm tree to decide which should succeed...
...beef to make one pound of Bovril. This circumstance is cunningly suggested by the Bovril poster, which shows a shaggy and slightly dilapidated steer staring at a bottle of Bovril with a wild surmise that is elucidated in the caption: "Alas! My poor brother." Bovril sales took a big jump during the influenza epidemic of 1918 when it became standard British hospital diet. Bovril profits - some $1,500,000 a year -have been built in part upon the assurance, heartily shared by its noble directors, that the sense of fun never sets on the British Empire. Too conservative to desert...
...almost an essential to continued existence, that something of those principles of sincerity, steadfastness, and of courage, which are found in the country may be transplanted in the city. There is something wrong with a civilization which forces twenty men in a single October afternoon to jump out of tall buildings because a stock fell ten points. It is a lack of any values, principles, of standards which can be relied upon when monetary support has been withdrawn...