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...Pennsylvania dunking. Then they tied the score, and with just 25 seconds to play fired a last desperate shot. Bob ("Hunchy") Hoernschemeyer faked an end run, turned and heaved a pass; Tony Minisi-who was a flashy Penn freshman a year ago-got there just in time to outjump three Pennsylvania defenders for the winning (14-10-7) catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mid-Term Report | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

Wearing an old blue jacket and forage cap, affectionately nicknamed "Culo de Hierro" (Iron Arse), Bolívar would suddenly break the tedium of a march by challenging his companions to outjump him. He liked to dance with female camp followers around the campfire, would break off abruptly to dictate (in Spanish, French or English) his fast, polished sentences to a secretary. He pardoned his venal aides, refused to feather his own nest, praised his generals unstintedly. He deliberately resigned as Supreme Chief in order to discourage dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Liberator | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Crimsonite Bob Haydock ranks along the top in the high-jump. Having jumped 6'2" during the winter, he will have to have an off day to let Dillingham of Columbia, and James Cuffe of Dartmouth outjump him. Whether plodding Al Northrop of Harvard can come down to Princeton mentor Bradley's 4.20.3 in the mile is a question, answerable as the others, only between the hours of two and five this coming Saturday...

Author: By Rockwell Hollands, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/4/1937 | See Source »

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