Word: leapfrogged
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...narratives or proverbs with a moral significance. The two kinds of commentary are hopelessly, sometimes humorously, interwoven. Argument is seldom pursued to a logical conclusion. In the midst of a passage on why divorce is necessary to preserve peace in society, for example, the sages will suddenly and bewilderingly leapfrog into a brief discussion of robbery and the right of the heathen poor to share in the harvest gleanings. Nineteenth Century Historian Isaac Jost compared the Talmud to a great mine, containing "the finest gold and the rarest gems, as well as the merest dross...
...control its assets. It must appeal for money to the city's Democratic administration, which in turn depends on the state's Republican legislature for about one-third of its school funds. Union pressure against the board is thus a charade: the real game is to leapfrog the board and play off the rival politicians...
...Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901, cannons in London boomed a ceremonial farewell-and villagers 90 miles away were startled by the rumbling volley. Yet not a shot was heard in towns halfway between. What caused the funereal boom to leapfrog...
...appropriated; even after they are, a long process of initial design competition, proposals and discussions must follow. In fact, there is still a major division over the crucial question of how fast a plane to build. The airframe makers want a Mach 3 jet (2,000 m.p.h.) that will leapfrog the Mach 2.2 Concorde; National Airlines President Lewis Maytag Jr. and American President C. R. Smith both want slower planes; and Federal Aviation Agency Administrator Najeeb Halaby has not made up his mind...
...Leapfrog Across the Acropolis. Also among the superfluous, he said, are the large numbers of military personnel. In his last post, that of Ambassador to Greece, Briggs recalled, there were 70 sailors, soldiers and airmen attached to the embassy. "Had I been able to deploy them for three hours every morning in full-dress uniform, playing leapfrog across the Acropolis, that would have made as much sense as most of the attache duties they solemnly declared they were engaged...