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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skip and jump was better than the second, place leap by more than four feet, and broke the Crimson mark...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Henry, Sheehan Lead Thinclads | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

Despite the complexity of converting visuals into numbers, coders say that the computer procedures are a quantum leap over the all-manual page assembly of the past. "This method is more exact," explains Coder Steve Feeback. "The computer can align things more precisely than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 3, 1984 | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...Bulldogs scored The Game's winning points on a fourth down, 1-yard leap by sophomore Led Macauley with less than 5 minutes to play...

Author: By Jeffrey A.zucker, | Title: Yale Nukes Harvard, 30-27; Penn Left Atop the Ivy Pile | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

Dartmouth dominated play from the beginning, taking the ball 88 yards for a score on its first possession behind the running of Lorenzo Chambers, who carried the ball nine times for 31 yards on the drive and scored on a one-yard leap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth 27, Brown 11 | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

Rubbia's find represented a great leap forward in science's attempt to prove the so-called unified field theory, which would link the four forces of nature in a single elegant set of equations. Two of those forces are familiar: electromagnetism, which lights bulbs and makes clothes cling; and gravity, which holds humans to the ground and determines the earth's orbit around the sun. The remaining two are more exotic: the so-called strong force, which binds together the particles in a nucleus; and the weak force, which controls radioactive decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: PHYSICS: BOSONS' BOSSES | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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