Word: leap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four months ago, in April, the ram-swollen Mississippi River began to leap from its bed. Result: "the greatest national calamity since the Civil War"-a crawling sheet of water that left few dry spots between southern Illinois and the Gulf of Mexico. Last week the American Red Cross announced that all was not yet dry in the Mississippi Valley. Some 170,000 acres are still under water; 130,000 in Louisiana, 21,000 in Mississippi, 10,000 in Arkansas, 8,500 in Illinois. The Red Cross is at present providing food, clothing and shelter for 130,000 destitute flood...
...supplanted skill. Workmen still play catch with incandescent rivets, which, when heated, are tossed through the air 30, 40, 50 feet to where a nonchalant figure, swaying on a matchstick girder, swings a pail to catch them. Loiterers many floors below stand enchanted, watching the bits of glowing metal leap obligingly like miraculously agile trout into a waiting pan. Loiterers reflect that while science sometimes fails when heavy steel bars drop down, skill is infallible, for no rivet ever falls...
Methods of subdividing the year (calendars) have been changed repeatedly. Julius Caesar found the Egyptians using twelve 30-day months. The five extra days (six in leap years) they celebrated as holidays. Julius Caesar gave six odd months 31 days and February only 29 (30 in leap year). Emperor Augustus Caesar, jealous of his Uncle Julius' month July, gave to August 31 days also, and shifted other months to the present reckoning. In 1582 Pope Gregory corrected the calendar, which had lagged ten days behind astronomical time because the actual year contains 365.242 days, while the calendar year accounts...
...calendar would divide the year into 13 equal months of 28 days each, each day numbered and named exactly the same. The 13th month would be called Sol and would go between June and July. The 365th day would be called "year-day" and be numbered December 29. In leap year the 366th day would be numbered June...
White placed third in the broad jump with an actual leap of 21 feet and a 4 inch handicap. Guaruaccia turned in a 45 foot 6 inch throw in the 16-pound shot put which with a two foot handicap gave him a second to one of the Medford High athletes who had a four foot advantage...