Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upset by the narrowest of margins, an upset that would have definitely established its like as the usual of the season and not the unusual. The final score of Yale 68 1-2, Harvard 66 1-2 was not in Yale's favor until the final event, the broad jump, in which the Blues gained first and second places to forge pass the Crimson in the scoring for the first and deciding time...
...Haydock, who last week set a new Harvard high jump record of 6 ft. 3 1-2 in. tied with Badman of Yale Saturday...
...Oxford in July, Freshmen were making special efforts to excel. Jim Lightbody qualified with a 49.1 quarter, George Downing also made the grade when he heaved the shot 45 ft. 6 1-4 in., nearly a foot better than the Varsity. Especially notable also was a new Freshman high jump record of 6 ft. 1 5-8 in. set by Harvard's Guill Aertsen...
TIME deserves congratulations for giving the facts of the Duck Hill lynchings simply and dispassionately. Many biased Northern journals will jump at hasty conclusions anent this lawless act, falling into the common error of generalizing from too few cases...
Other survivor stories were equally terse, equally terrible. Passenger Otto Clemens, who jumped safely, told how Passenger John Pannes refused to jump until he found his wife. Mr. & Mrs. Pannes both perished. Mrs. Hermann Doehner related in a husky monotone how she tossed two of her children out of a window, then scrambled out herself with the third. One child died, as did her husband. The others had chances of pulling through. Stewardess Elsa Ernst got away by sliding down a rope. Said she: "I could hear my hair crinkling as it burned." Passenger Herbert O'Laughlin...