Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Adams Carter, despite the fact that he had jumped only once before in competition, took third place in the ski jump, with a distance of 46 feet. He also took fourth place in the slalom and sixth in the downhill race. At the same time teammate Charlie Rogers though not an entrant in the jump placed seventh in both the slalom and the downhill competitions...
Carter and Loomis have spent a good part of the week skiing and getting physically fit for their exams. They have been using the jump at Berlin, New Hampshire in preparation for this Carnival, and also for the Williams Carnival to be held the following weekend...
...while attempting a pass, automatically gave L. S. U. two points. A few minutes later, he directed an attack which brought his team to L. S. U.'s 26-yd. line. From there Tilly Manton arched a field goal to put Texas Christian's Horned Frogs one jump ahead...
...Garmisch-Partenkirchen, U. S. speed skaters and bobsledders have more than a fair chance to repeat their victories of the 1932 winter games at Lake Placid. At hockey, fancy skating and skiing they are likely to be beaten. Major event of the 1936 Winter Olympics will be the ski-jump, for which grandstands have been built to seat a crowd of 80,000. Practicing at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, on the jump which has a swastika placed below the take-off so that a good jumper lands beyond it, Norway's 21-year-old Birger Ruud. Olympic champion...
Unluckily for Chris's simple Q.E.D., Anne's true love landed just after Chris had sailed. The letter that told him what she had not been able to met him in Manhattan, made him jump ship there and stow away on the first liner he could find. His will to get back to Anne was strong enough to survive a shipwreck in mid-Atlantic, but not omnipotent enough to keep his wife from running away with a more compelling...