Word: leapt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went a pistol in the Chicago Coliseum a few hours later. Three runners leapt forward; fast they went, though they had a mile and three-quarters to go. In front was a light skinny one, this Nurmi; behind him came Joie Ray, Fred Liewendahl. Lap after lap they padded. At the tenth they were only two; Liewendahl had quit. At the twentieth Nurmi looked over his shoulder at lurching, wavering Ray. Then he set his eyes on the tape, flashed through it, trotted off to his dressing room. Eighty yards behind came Ray, crossed the finished, collapsed into the arms...
Near Bourges, France, a wild boar, hunters after him, dashed down the street of the village of Grand Mallery, scrambled through a doorway, through a hall, into a room where lay, as he had lain for months, an invalid. This invalid screamed, arose, leapt out of the window. The hunters came, killed the boar; the sick man returned to work...
Evening. In the tabernacle-tent of the evangelist, every yellow chair and all the sawdust aisles were filled. Six weeks had he labored for this hour. Half the town (Elmira, N. Y.), as they sang hymns of salvation, saw their sins stand horrible and naked before them. The evangelist leapt to the rostrum, proclaimed his text: "THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH." Finally, said he: "No person in whose heart reposes guilty knowledge need expect to make peace with God until full confession is first made." Dawn. In police headquarters, a night captain leaned drowsily over his desk. He felt...
...Turkestan and Bokhara, the waters of the River Amu-Oxus were in such a hurry to get to the Aral Sea that they leapt the banks, flooded the country, submerged more than 2,000 villages, caused much loss of life...
...disciplinary hour examinations would lead one to the belief that the College still considered itself a strong armed compulsory feeder and the undergraduate an intellectual hunger-striker. Moreover the requirements for modern languages still in force prove that the Faculty still considers these languages as hurdles to be leapt--and left behind--in a cross-country race for a degree, rather than as tools to be utilized in the building of a man's mind...