Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, a four-minute mile, a seven-foot high jump, a 15-foot pole vault were considered as unlikely as a cow jumping over the moon. Year after year U. S. athletes, a dedicated, concentrated and highly competitive lot, have approached nearer & nearer these impossible figures. Last week, at Berkeley, Calif., Pole Vaulter Cornelius Warmerdam of the San Francisco Olympic Club became the first trackman officially to do the "impossible." In a triangular track meet (University of California, Washington State College, San Francisco Olympic Club) he succeeded in clearing the bar at 15 ft.-one inch higher than...
...Kremlin, and cite as an example the fact that last year the H.S.U. was asking for collective security, and now is on an isolationist tack. The answer to that is that the H.S.U. has learned well the lesson of the World War; that America has a fatal tendency to jump into Europe when war is raging, and then pull out when peace comes...
...starters cleared the first jump, the second, the third. Then they began to tumble. At hair-raising Becher's Brook, Royal Danieli took the lead, kept it round the right-angle Canal Turn, over Valentine's Brook, down the backstretch, past the stands the first time around. At Becher's Brook, on the second circuit, he was still in front, with MacMoffat and James Neill's 50-to-1 shot Gold Arrow close behind. It looked as if the old Aintree jinx on favorites was not working...
...Quick to jump at the opportunity was RCA, which has sunk more than $10,000,000 in television development, thinks it has the foundation for a great new industry with millions of sets in U. S. homes, with millions of dollars in created income for entertainers, salesmen, writers, technicians, factory workers. To its factory in Camden, N. J. went orders to step up production of receivers, then averaging about seven a day. To its sales department went orders to get ready to sell 25,000 television sets because RCA: 1) was ready to begin taking some revenue from its pioneering...
Earl Carroll received an invitation to act as a supporter of Presidential Candidate Robert A. Taft. Reason: in the campaign of 1912 Carroll was one of the composers of a song, Jump On the Raft With Taft. At that time Carroll went to Washington with a quartet, rose in the House gallery, started to sing his song, was thrown...