Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, N. P. Beveridge '32, took three first places to win the meet. He won in the broad jump, the 50-yard dash and the high jump...
...Frederic (Irene Castle) McLaughlin, onetime dancer, animal lover,*was thrown, suffered a broken collar bone when her hunter stumbled into a hole as he approached a jump west of Lake Forest...
Evidently the Prohibition broil is getting too hot for the politicians and they figure it better to jump out of the frying pan into the fire of hard times. The full dinner pail is accordingly held forth to tempt the working man away from the overflowing beer bucket...
...band, returning to its post, halts, "Sounds Off" again, and, because this is Sunday, breaks into "Nearer My God to Thee" so that all and sundry may realize this is the Sabbath. The buglers sound "Retreat" and the sunset gun barks. Kaydets snicker as the cits jump at the report. The battalion come to attention and then to "Present Arms" as the National Anthem is played. Then the adjutant publishes the orders, officers and guidons go front and center and the Corps passes in review...
...three weeks, handled daily. When the time comes to train a performer, the end of a thin gold wire 2 in. long is fastened collar-fashion about its neck. This collar must be loose enough to allow the flea to eat, but tight enough so it cannot jump through. When fleas are not performing they are kept in boxes with their feet entangled in cotton. Fleamen say they can tell a flea's possibilities for the stage by the way it holds its six legs. A flea which always grasps one leg with another will make a ball balancer...