Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...JUMPING: - 29 feet 7 inches, in one running jump, by Howard Chester in England...
...second trial of the high jumping contest held in the gymnasium at Yale last Saturday was won by Sherwood, '90, with a jump of 5 3-4 feet by reason of his handicap over Shearman, '89, who jumped 5ft. 2 3-4 inches...
...hour in his characteristic pointed manner, interspersing his remarks with numerous anecdotes. He said that there were two schools of temperance, the wet and the dry. He preferred the dry, as did Dickens' young lady on board the vessel in the case of the fifth lover who wouldn't jump overboard to save her, because he was the most practical. In taking a stand against liquor there were too heresies to be met. The personal heresy, where people of high standing used liquor moderately and had it on their sideboards for all; and the heresy in regard to license...
...commenced regular work in training for them. The candidates for the Mott Haven Team number about thirty men, and have begun their regular work, consisting principally of long walks and runs. A new plan has been adopted by which, it is hoped, the college record for the running high jump may be considerably raised. Handicap trials are to be held in the Gymnasium for seven or eight successive weeks, at which each man is to be handicapped according to the record he made the previous week. At the end the prize will be awarded...
...Christmas vacation begins to-day. Most of us will be glad to leave Cambridge, not only because we shall be free from study for a short time, but also because we shall perhaps go to the lands where the thermometer does not jump frantically from forty degrees below zero in six hours; where one can wake up in the morning without the dread of finding the ground covered with ten inches of snow which better experience has taught, will be as many inches of slush at night; where one can walk confidently from place to place on civilized walks...