Word: break-through
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...three seconds behind the winner, Gillepsie’s performance puts him second in the Ivy League. More importantly, Gillepsie now sits fourth on Harvard’s all-time top-10 performance list for the event. “It was a great race for me, a big break-through and a very large improvement for me,” Gillepsie said. “Great race” is an understatement, according to his teammates and coach, especially since Gillepsie demolished his previous best by 22 seconds, almost two seconds faster per lap on a 400-meter track...
...audience enough time to explore ideas in-depth and parse out the details of the arguments. Taylor is justified, then, in the fast-paced aspect of her endeavor—with only 10 minutes to talk through their ideas, none of these thinkers are about to make a philosophical break-through. Ronell tells a helpful anecdote about Heidegger’s abandonment of what he believed to be institutionalized philosophy in favor of simply thinking. Indeed, Taylor’s film presents nothing like a close reading of “Being and Time,” but it does...
Four days later, Cusworth had the break-through game that his team so desperately needed...
...lightweight team has entered boats in the Lightweight Eight and the Lightweight Four events. But with a new boat, and the normally powerful Princeton squad starting with the seventh bow number, the Black and White is expecting a break-through weekend...
...that a complete page can be viewed vertically on mobile screens and look the same as it does on a PC. "With our technology, mobile users can visit any page on the World Wide Web, not just special pages," says Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner. Opera's break-through, the latest salvo in the mobile browser wars, is part of a broader fight to dominate the wireless Web, which is heating up now that third-generation mobile phones are finally hitting the market. For now, the focus is on browser technology; the next stage, programmable phones, will spotlight mobile...