Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Communist China built its biggest freighter, the 11,182-ton ship was christened-naturally-Yueh Chin, or the S.S. Leap Forward. With almost as much fanfare as when she was launched, the Leap Forward sailed from Tsingtao last week with the first cargo shipped from China to Japan since the two countries signed a recent trade agreement ending their five-year official boycott of each other's goods. Then, half way across the East China Sea one afternoon last week, the Leap Forward suddenly radioed for help. Four hours later, the pride of China's merchant fleet...
...Chinese crew, who took to the lifeboats and were rescued by Japanese fishermen, excitedly insisted in sign language that their ship had been pursued by a submarine and hit by three torpedoes. But to Japanese naval authorities their story seemed as full of holes as the Leap Forward herself. If the ship had really been torpedoed, they pointed out, its 59-man crew could hardly have escaped without the loss of a single life. Besides, who would want to sink an unarmed merchantman? The U.S. announced that it, for one, had no subs in the area. A more logical explanation...
Ohiri's triple leap of 49 ft. 1/2 in. will place him among the leaders in the country in an event in which Harvard has developed remarkable strength. Chum Azikiwe placed second in today's final with a jump of 47 ft. 4 in., and Hoble Armstrong placed fourth...
...Harvard from which he retired in 1907 had taken its Great Leap Forward. Under President Eliot the University had clearly assumed the status of a national school; the celebrities, more often than in the Civil War era, actually taught courses. This period was especially a golden age for the philosophy department. At one time James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, George Herbert Palmer, and Hugo Munsterberg all held appointments. Darwin, Hegel, and Helmholtz had progressively gained influence through the intervening years. On the other hand, operationalism, behaviorism, and the Freud Bomb had not yet burst upon the American scene...
...record was 14.1 seconds. Awori also tied the most ancient University record on the books when he ran the 100 yd. dash in 9.8 seconds, equalling a mark first set in 1906 and since tied by several men. As a final gesture, Awori won the broad jump with a leap...