Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perkins Observatory's 69-in. at Delaware, Ohio. Near Bloemfontein, South Africa Harvard owns a 60-incher. The Harvard observatories at Bloemfontein and Harvard (the town) are practically equidistant from the equator, positions which give Harvard well-nigh perfect opportunity to rake the heavens and amplify patient Dr. Annie Jump Cannon's stupendous catalog of the stars (more than 225,000 spectra already...
...James Gleason, who in this one supplies the pathos, dies; Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante, who appears in one scene for five minutes; Billie Dove, whose once shapely figure has assumed dimensions hardly commensurate with her rôle?that of Miss Davies' friend in the Follies. The story concerns the quick jump of the two young ladies from an East Side tenement to swank apartments on Park Avenue. First Miss Dove gets into the chorus, permits herself to be kept. Miss Davies follows in short order, is set up in style befitting a "regally gilded queen." Montgomery, once provider for Miss Dove...
...when the legislative committee began its investigation last year. "I shall meet every one of these [charges] on the facts," he boasted before going to Albany. But the day his testimony ended, he sent one of his attorneys scuttling off to court to prepare a legal life net to jump into...
Decathlon (100-metre sprint, broad jump, shot-put, high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole-vault, javelin throw, 1,500-metre run) went to huge James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, insurance salesman and onetime University of Kansas footballer, who was in sixth place before the last five events, finished with a world's record score of 8,462.23. Second was Matti Jarvinen's brother Akilles with...
...world's record of 11.7 sec. Disgusted at not being allowed to compete in the discus throw (won by Lillian Copeland of the U. S.) and 100-metre dash [won by Stanislawa Walasiewicz (Stella Walsh) of Poland], she was further disgusted when Jean Shiley beat her in the high jump (5 ft. 5¼ in.). Babe Didrikson was disqualified for "diving...