Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valuable player in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Invitation Tournament last year; Stanford's Forrest Anderson, All-Pacific Coast forward; Missouri's John Lobsiger, Big Six biggie; Dartmouth's Bob White, star of 1940's Ivy League champions; and Indiana's Bill Menke, spark plug of the team that won the National Collegiate title two years...
...nation's economic resources . . . a political demand that no administration will ignore. We of industry . . . must take the initiative in both planning and action. . . ." To that end, "we should not curtail our research during the emergency." Although there may be no great single new industry to spark the post-war transition, there will be much rebuilding to do ("the American production plant is obsolete"), many a new opportunity. General Motors, he revealed, is already developing a bank of new or improved products-what lie calls G.M.'s "A.H." (after Hitler) program...
...instance, easily surpasses all of the D minor, for instance, casily surpasses all of the other four versions, three of which are recorded on large-scale organs, and one of which is in an opulent orchestral transcription. Certainly if there is any organist in the country who has spark enough in his fingers to put the Germanic Museum organ through its baptism of fire and make the rafters ring with really gorgeous organ sonorities, it is Weinrich...
...hour out of Natal over the Atlantic, a U.S. pilot in the first group ferrying planes to the British at Bathurst noticed a cylinder "missing." He was able to return to Natal and land, though beacon and runway lights were out, the field deserted. Mechanics discovered one very loose spark plug, several wiggly ignition wires. Since then airport lights shine all night and pilots stand two-hour watches over their planes...
...Jazz Information's standards were too high for its own material good. It refusal to compromise with what it called "quasi-jazz," its strict adherence to the New Orleans-Louis Armstrong line, may have scared off many who needed to be educated gradually to an appreciation of the vital spark of the great jazz improvisers. It appealed, therefore, almost exclusively to confirmed addicts, and for them it performed a great service with its thoughtful criticisms and biographies of well-known jazzmen. To the ex-jitterbug who has tired of jive, however, its almost esoteric articles and dogmatic policy seemed...