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Word: jumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Johnson, originally from McGill, won the 440. All three received their "blues."* In addition, B. M. Baker, of Virginia and Oxford, and W. E. Stevenson, of Princeton and Oxford, placed third in the 440 and broad jump, respectively. They got half-blues. The meet was a tie, each team scoring five firsts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blues | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

...into space. Eight seconds after he stepped, he pulled the rip cord. Twenty-four minutes and 52 seconds later he landed in an alley in the exclusive residential section of San Antonio, was surrounded by "1,000 cheering school children." Corporal Conrad had made a world's record jump both for height and for duration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: A Jump | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

...Farrell, University track coach, has been selected as one of the assistant coaches of the United States Olympic team. The running broad jump, hop step and jump, and the pole vault are listed as the events which will be under his particular jurisdiction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARRELL WILL COACH JUMPERS AND VAULTERS AT OLYMPICS | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

...placed eleventh, was the one-mile relay. In this the Harvard runners upset all predictions by coming in a hair's breadth behind Yale for second place, with a time of less than a fifth of a second slower than the record. In the other events, barring the high jump in which Gerould tied for second, the University failed to place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEEK AT HARVARD | 3/8/1924 | See Source »

...which the United States Senate originally objected to the League have been removed by changes in the League constitution. The affirmative admitted that the League is the ideal, but advocates the Plan as a means of attaining the ideal, which the misinformed people refuse to attain at a jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1927 DEBATERS FIND FAULTS APLENTY IN BOK PEACE PLAN | 3/7/1924 | See Source »

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