Word: jumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seconds; F. E. Cummings '30 in the quarter, H. P. Porter '29 in the 880, and P. N. Youchx '31 in the hammer complete the list of Crimson entrants who distinguished themselves in track and field. The one and two mile runs and the high jump and pole vault tomorrow will give other Harvard stars an opportunity...
...Broad jump. Qualifiers--Hill (Southern California), 23 ft. 7 1-2 in.; Herback (Pittsburgh), 23 ft. 7 1-2 in.; Herback (Pittsburgh), 23 ft. 5 1-8 in.; Boyle (Penn), 23 ft. 3 in.; Paul (Southern California), 23 ft. 2 1-2 in.; Dowell (Stanford) 23. ft. 2 in.; Benjamin (Syracuse...
...people seated in the waiting room three floors below. Plaster showered from walls and ceilings. A heavy yellow gas poured through the building. Doctors, nurses and patients sniffed it and fled. Some seated in chairs took a long breath and died without moving. Some reached the windows, prepared to jump, but billows of gas enveloped them and they fell back dead. Others succeeded in leaping from the first and second story windows. Some limped away. Some lay writhing in agony and died upon the lawn, for the gas followed them even into the open. Passersby upon the street collapsed...
Because no patents are obtainable, Packard is guarding its new product until it can get into production and thus "get the jump" on the rest of the industry. To that end the company has already started a special 300,000 sq. ft. factory and scheduled future production. And in anticipation of new profits Packard motor car stock last week began ascending...
...scientific publications about the success some Swiss engineers were having with Alternating Current, which requires, as schoolboys know, much less initial impulse and much less bulky lines for transmission over long distances, than is required for Direct Current. Proponents of Direct were saying that high voltages of Alternating would "jump right off the wire"; that it was dangerous, fit only for use in lethal chairs at penitentiaries. Mr. Adams quietly ordered some experiments in insulation, which eventuated in the familiar porcelain cup device now used on high tension lines...