Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ever since the Civil War, perhaps before, politicians and pinks have had a feeling that business men were committing heinous crimes, continually breaking the law, but that they always managed to get away with it through the cleverness of their lawyers, who found holes through which any octopus could jump...
...faults in the American educational system is the hard and fast division between the various stages in a man's training. From grammar to high or preparatory school is in itself a jump; that from high school to college even more pronounced, and with harmful effects on the adjacent years in both; while that from college to law school is at present literally a step from one world to another. A development in education that promises to be interesting will be the gradual fusing of these three phases into one another...
...weeks the best candidates become business editors and are shortly given the responsibility of running the paper for a week at a time. Not only is this valuable practice but fun as well. During that week you are the boss. Right now in college you can get that little jump which means something when you graduate. An employer picks you first because you know the ropes...
...Long Jump...
...High Jump...