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Word: jumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enrollment last year numbered 100, and this year double that figure have been planned for. Twenty-five men were selected for the practical part of the course, and this year that number is also expected to jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVIATION GROUND SCHOOL STARTS THIS EVENING | 1/7/1926 | See Source »

...stood up in its seats with the shivering "Ah!" that fevers a plaza de toros when the matador is tossed. This was when Vadabelle, ridden by Dick Messcrop of Port Chester, N. Y., in taking the five-foot wall at the edge of the tanbark instead of the last jump on the course, went sprawling into a group of spectators, knocking them down like dolls. But no one was hurt; Vadabelle went back to her stall. Otto W. Lehmann's Princess Mary went jingling around with a fine gait to take the heavy harness event. Miss America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chicago Horse Show | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...could not 'bear to be crossed or criticized. When he cracked the whip everybody must jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Forbes v. Duke | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...unpleasantly accurate, it is time to go home much sooner. The Joker is a wordy and obvious melodrama. Mr. Morgan is far too good an actor to play this sort of thing, in which he is one jump ahead of the villain, poverty and cuckoldom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...game with a touchdown. But a covey of runners brushed down on him, bore him out of bounds before he had run 43 yards. The 85,000 went home, content. They had seen what they came for. They had seen, also, Marek (Ohio State) break lose from one tackier, jump another, cross Grange's goal line. Score: Illinois 14, Ohio State 9. All autumn the skilful toe of Benny Friedman and the oaken-bound bucket-ribs of "Bull" Molenda have kept Michigan high in the Conference League. On Saturday this pair, with, alternate punts and bucks, drop-kicks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

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