Word: leap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate, I found the Divisionals simply a final official hurdle which, by sheer blind luck in the choosing of my courses, I managed to leap; as an adviser, I have, for the last two years, found the Divisionals simply a stumbling-block, to pass which is of more importance than the acquisition of a certain amount of education. Of course, if Divisionals be considered synonymous with Education, my objection falls flat. But I doubt if even the most sanguine of us believes that the true essence of a man's education can be poured into three hours of blue-book...
...graceful bounds, a scamper, an elegant leap...
...Bradley Interscholastic Track and Field meet at Peoria, Ill., two young women beat their own records with much skill and dash. Katharine Lee of Chicago faced the bar unperturbed. One, two, three, a few graceful bounds, a scamper, an elegant leap and Miss Lee shot 4 ft., 11 ⅜ in. into the air and over the bar, beating her previous world record...
...very immediate and practical interest to members of the graduating class is the privilege of conferences with Mr. F. H. Curtiss and Mr. A. M. White. The first beginnings in business will assuredly be less a leap in the dark when explained with that kindness and consideration which has prompted these Harvard men to "teach the ropes" to their possible successors...
...latest of these voyageurs is Captain S. C. Bullock, M. C. who recently returned to London with highly diverting accounts of barking vultures, fishes which leap out of the water on to necks of their prey, and other amazing fauna. Although treated with a most irreverent levity by the daily press, the Captain laid his papers before the Royal Geographical Society. A suspicion still lingers that that learned body is having its leg pulled...