Word: somersaults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...height of 3,000 feet in a bombing plane, leaped out with closed parachutes. A large crowd had gathered below. This crowd saw the two begin their plunge, waited to see them open their parachutes. After descending a short distance, however, the men began to twist, whirl, somersault. Screams of horror went up from the onlookers. Rushing to the spot where the two would fall, these spectators found the courageous corporal, the intrepid sergeant. They were unhurt. When they had fallen 1,000 feet, they had pulled the ripcords of their parachutes, descended easily. Both said that at no time...
...eight months to reach Paris from Holland and had just six months more in which to reach Marseilles in order to win a wager. He travels about five miles a day. His method of progression is to put his hands on the ground, lift his feet, turn a neat somersault, repeat the process ad infinitum...
...opening of the play, ran through Stubbs and Morton for a score, and a few minutes later Buntin eluded the B. A. A. forwards, split the defense, rode through to draw Lacroix-out of position and caged the puck in a rough-and-tumble scrimmage which ended with a somersault into the boards...