Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago because it was supposed to be the finest winter sports resort in Germany. Since then, Germany's Olympic Committee has spent 3,000,000 marks ($1,200,000) building headquarters for officials, a mile bobsled run, an artificial ice rink, a huge ski stadium, a ski jump so tall it makes the town's old one look like a mink-slide. All these preparations were keyed to the widespread German belief that the 11th Olympiad, which reaches its climax next summer in Berlin, was to be a rare chance to win back some of the international...
...Freshmen are weak in the field events except for the broad jump...
...confidently, naively--toward the bottom of the valley where the stream of Permanent Neutrality flowed along an uncertain course. Along its shore stood the chilled, dripping figures of little European boys, gazing wistfully across. The American child had never tried the stream, but he was sturdy, surely he could jump it at one bound. The poor little foreigners, he was certain, were not strong enough to try; just sissies, always cheating when they played "Cops and Robbers". Brightly he ran up to the bank, jeering at the other despondent children...
Near the edge, sticking up not of the water, was a rock with a big sign on it, saying "Definitions of Aggressors and Victims". Above it hung a limb of a tree; its sign saying "Freedom of The Seas, and Neutrality Rights." It was only a short jump, and the rock looked steady; so he gave a big leap. But the Rock of definitions was slippery with the scum of international Incidents his feet skidded; and he began to fall. Twisting he tried to catch the Limb of Neutral Rights above him. But then he noticed what had not been...
Peter Brooks and Emerson continued their steady jumping performances, both doing 28 meters as their best jump, to get in the first 15, with Emerson leading Brooks by a hair. Carter had a best jump of 26 meters, while Shaw followed with one of 19 meters...