Word: leapt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Social Sciences 134, taught by John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economies, has leapt from seventh place last year to second, with 350 students. this Fall Galbraith's course on "The Modern Industrial Society" has bumped Economics 1 to third place from a position in the top two which it held for the previous five years...
JOHN HAMMOND, the great blues singer, leapt scornfully upon me for designating myself as an "underground" musician...
Nancy Boyd, soprano, lacked purity Friday evening and was often blemished by curious shifts of timbre. Technically, however, she was in complete control and in her final number picked her way through a twisting coloratura passage and then leapt to a ringing high D. Tenor Roger Childs was called on only once--to sing "The Roasted Cygnet's Song," which lies in a stratospheric register--and Childs produced the notes as well as the proper quality of a wailing lament...
...creative frustration. There is an odor of psychopathic self-righteousness about many of the hardy annual protesters. I have long ago refused to sign those glib and predictable letters to the Times, including the one during the recent Israeli crisis when so many of these cause-happy activists leapt to the telephone and their pens. The same principle applies to the Viet Nam war, the very name of which has become a synonym for left-wing sanctimony...
Harvard jumpers Jim Sise, Ben Barnes, and John Mitchell leapt to 19, 28, and 29 in a field of 40 to put the team in seventh place...