Word: jumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Annie Jump Cannon, assistant at the College Observatory since 1897 and curator of astronomical photographs since 1907, has been selected by a special committee of the National League of Women Voters as one of the 12 greatest living American women. The group includes Miss Jane Addams, Madame Homer, and Mrs. Edith Wharton...
China's reputation of having the oldest civilization in the world became a doubtful honor when western nations began to thrust their hungry faces over the wall and look about. To meet these irresistible intruders on anything like even terms, China found herself obliged to jump over a good many centuries into the current of modern ways. Out of pure generosity the United States decided not to take advantage of the naivete of her rebirth and therefore remitted ten of the twenty-five millions due to her as Boxer indemnity. This has proved to be profitable altruism, for since then...
...Broad Jump. J. H. Broome, F. W. Dorman, D. J. Quirk, Donald Spencer, J. B. Vernaglia...
...High Jump. Charles Jenney Jr., Donald Spencer, M. A. Stern...
Although Technology, is not as strong in the field events as on the track, there are some high class M. I. T. entrants in these contests. Greenough in the high jump and Stearns in the pole vault have been clearing some good heights, while in the broad jump Stewart and Heap have been showing up well. In the weight events Dexter and Drew have been making the longest heaves, while the discus throwing of Tryon and Caine, and Garrard's javelin work have been particularly promising...