Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henry, who has not lost a jumping event this season, continued his campage through the record books as he set a meet and Harvard triple jump mark with a 51 -ft... 1 3 4-in. leap This not only smashed the school record he set two months ago, but also topped Boston University's Duanc Carlisle, favored in the event...
...evening before, Henry had beaten a talented Terrier. Fred Salle on the long jump with a leap of 24 ft 31/4in on his last attempt...
Nonetheless, the sharp run-ups persuaded many experts that the long-awaited second leg of the bull market was at hand. Since surging 64% to 1258.51 between August 1982 and July 1983, the Dow Jones average has been drifting. After an 87.5-point leap during a single week last August, the index finished 1984 in the 1200 range. Analysts last week were confident that the next move would be up. "The Dow will hit 1300 before it sees 1200 again," predicted Peter Furniss, senior vice president for Shearson Lehman/ American Express. David Jones, chief economist for Aubrey G. Lanston...
Both of the finals yesterday ended in dramatic Crimson victories. In the long jump, senior Mark Henry won the event with his final leap of the evening, a 24-ft., 3 1/4-in, performance...
...dance, the human body defies gravity, time and its own limitations; it is man's most eloquent leap toward godliness. Almost a century of the art on film --from the cooch dancers of the 1890s to the breakdancers of the 1980s, from the debonair Fred Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring...