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Word: skips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Eleven men of the University squad will make the trip to Philadelphia to take part in the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival, Friday and Saturday. Captain A. Stevens '19 leaves today at noon with E. O. Gourdin '21, in order to participate in the 56-pound weight and the hop-skip and jump, respectively. These events are to be run off tomorrow. The other nine men, C. A. Clark '19, A. W. Douglass '21, D. J. Duggan '21, H. C. Flower '19, W. H. Goodwin '21, R. W. Harwood '20 C. G. Krogness '21, W. Moore Occ., and D. F. O'Connell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHUTE 1922 TRACK CAPTAIN | 4/24/1919 | See Source »

...skip, and jump--H. C. Flower'19, E. O. Goundin '21, C. G. Krogness '21, W. Moore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 27 UNIVERSITY ENTRANTS IN PENN, RELAY CARNIVAL | 4/14/1919 | See Source »

...metres. It was an extraordinarily fine sight. Above this cloud floor it was clear and bright. The clouds looked very solid like great snowdrifts, with crevices, through which one could see the ground far below and peaks and domes rising above the others. The machine would skip over the cloud floor jumping the pits and cutting through or hopping over the peaks. Then when I had done my shooting a great plunge through a hole brought me out below them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESCRIBES AERIAL SHOOTING | 4/1/1918 | See Source »

...than to read without any effort at understanding, for this habit is not only a waste of time, but destructive to the intellect. These students may, indeed must, know how to read books, but reading newspapers is a different art. The first thing to learn is to skip the headlines, except as a guide as to what the topic is. The headlines of the dailies are often unreliable and sometimes intentionally misleading as to the nature of the news underneath. To compare the history of the war as, written in the headlines of certain American newspapers, with the actual course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR NEWS NOT DIGESTED BY GREATER PART OF STUDENTS | 5/27/1916 | See Source »

...other field events today are throwing the 56-pound weight, the hammer throw, and the running hop, skip, and jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK SEASON OPENS TODAY | 4/28/1916 | See Source »

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