Word: jumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after two unsuccessful attempts rose 250 feet in the air, flew six miles to an airplane given momentum not by a motor but by rockets. It was the first rocket-plane flight. Just before he started he had explained: "Before one attempts to fly to the moon, he must jump over the first milestone...
...complete and accurate account of the causes for the jump," was two more words...
...solemn group of sportsmen spent last week sitting in pairs at tables in Cedar Point, Ohio, propelling cylindrical pellets about checkered rectangles, making them sally, mingle, jump one another, then inching them ignominiously back to safe corners. Officials fumed impotently. For 20 hrs. four of the most potent contenders in the National Checker Championship piddled thus, played 32 drawn games. Came official threats to limit to 20 the number of games two players could draw without penalty. In the finals, after six draws, Asa Long of Toledo, Ohio, conquered 16-time drawer Louis C. Ginsberg of Brooklyn...
...were about 200 yards from the rocky shore, so I told the sailor I would swim by myself, not that I was brave, but I like swimming. . . . The Princess, who does not swim well, was helped by two sailors, and was almost the last to jump...
...ninth track meet between Yale-Harvard and Oxford-Cambridge. Each had won four of the eight meets preceding. Yale-Harvard was doubly pleased to win the ninth. Of the twelve events, Oxford-Cambridge took first place in only four - 120-yard high hurdle, 880-yard run, running broad jump, running high jump. Big stars were two Yale men, long Sid Kieselhorst, little Charlie Engle, each with two firsts. Worried were the Britishers as they left Cambridge, Mass., afterward to prepare for a meet the next Saturday with Princeton-Cornell, at Travers Island. Westchester Co., N. Y. A loss would...