Word: jumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surrounding forest of North Carolina feet and ankles, scampered a mouse. "If I appear a bit disconcerted," shrilled Mrs. Ross, "It's because a woman may be a governor but she's always afraid of a mouse. If it comes up here I'm going to jump on the TABLE!" The mouse mounted. So did Mrs. Ross...
...Haven, Sabin Carr of Yale and Dubuque, Iowa, holder of the world's pole-vault record, failed to jump 14 feet...
...shape of the voltages. When a wave of lightning encounters an obstruction it builds up to twice its power, just as a wave of water breaking on a wall will splash about twice its height. Therefore a direct voltage of 3,000,000 traveling along a line will suddenly jump to over 5,000,000 volts in & for the brief instant that it strikes the end of the line...
...evening. Then he set fire to his own home and left for Manhattan. The police were to find the bones of the drugged boarder charred beyond all recognition; Mrs. Lawson was then to collect her husband's $75,000 insurance. But the boarder regained consciousness in time to jump out of a window; and Mr. Lawson went to jail...
...hurdlers. The Crimson weight men will be David Guarnaccia '29 and C. A. Pratt '28. The pole vault promises to be a close fight between F. B. Clark '28, B. G. Burbank '28, and Prout, Michigan's veteran. F. T. Burgess '30, Harvard's only entry in the high jump, will have to outdo Waldo, who has cleared 5 feet, 10 5-8 inches to take second in the recent Big Ten meet...