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Word: jumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next thing he did was to jump on the running board. I took him by the neck with one hand and slapped him as hard as I could with the other. By that time a policeman came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Arkansans | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...plane on board the trawler, part of the lifting mechanism broke, cracking the propeller, demolishing the port wing. Lieut. Wade, after so much dared, so much achieved, saw his plane in ruin and relinquished the flight. Smith went on, reaching Iceland, where he and Nelson prepared for their jump to Greenland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Globe Flight | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...broad-jumping pit, a dusky form plunked into the sawdust, was lifted out, groaning. De Hart Hubbard, Michigan Negro, had won for America, had made his winning jump despite the excruciating pain of a pulled tendon. Ned Gourdin, Harvard Negro, leaped to second place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympiad | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

Eighth Day. With a hop, step and jump that covered over 50 feet, Winter of Australia started the eighth-day sensations. That was a world's record, and another came in heats of the 400-metre relay-set by Americans after Britons and Dutchmen had already fractured the standing mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympiad | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

Robert Legendre, Newark A. C, projected himself across 25 ft. 6 in. of ground, a world's record broad jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympiad | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

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