Word: leap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points for the afternoon, scoring in all eight field events, and winning four. Richie Szaro continued his astounding javelin performances, threw the spear 238 ft. 5 in. Saturday, shattering an 11-year-old Heps record. Bob Galliers got off the best long jump of his career, winning with a leap of 24 feet, one of the longest in recent years for Harvard...
...Coleman was the star of the jumping events as he high jumped an excellent 6 ft. 9 in. to tie a Harvard Stadium record. Sophomore Walter Johnson also had an outstanding day, winning the triple jump with a leap of 48 ft. 7 in., his best distance ever...
...other field events, Pete Lazarus won the pole vault at a height of 14 ft. 6 in., and Bob Galliers captured the long jump with a 23 ft. 1 in. leap...
Easy solutions to the ramifying problems of a technological age leap almost unbidden into Tichauer's mind, for he is both an inventive and a lazy man. His first impulse is to find an easier way to do anything. This ambition, together with a heartfelt concern for the physical vulnerability of man, has led him into a new and little-known discipline. Tichauer is a biomechanist: a scientist who is half-anatomist and half-engineer, and who seeks to improve the fit between man and machine. Under the prodding of human engineers like Tichauer, technology is beginning to accept...
...expand the stylized, confining vocabulary of ballet, which had been worked out largely as a series of infinite variations on two basic motions, the walk and the bow. To Graham, any human movement was a dancer's possibility, the fall to the floor no less than the leap into the air. She brought the alphabet forward from A and B all the way to Z. She emerged when Sigmund Freud was a major cultural hero. Partly as a result of his influence, she developed a symbolism that replaced ballet's traditional boy-meets-girl, boy-throws-girl-into...