Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Webb Morse of the Christian Science Monitor: "I favor the Cantabs by a 13 point margin. The Crimson defense is good enough to break up the Yale attack. With good weather, Spreyer should spark Harvard to victory...
...received wide praise. To me it seems a weak-kneed, rather precious imitation of Haydn in modern harmonics. Probably it is somewhat satiric; still it is a good example of the failure of modern composers to recreate in twentieth-century dress the music of the eighteenth century. The spark which lit up the formal pattern of a classical symphony cannot be recaptured merely by reproducing the exteriors. Something else, whatever it is that makes any music great, must also be there...
Dick Harlow's valuable and versatile end, who in the last few games has not been satisfied with acting as the spark plug of the Crimson team, but has taken over the duties of magnate, carburetor and generator in the bargain, suffered a muscle bruise in the Princeton mud Saturday. The injury is not serious but will be just enough to keep him out of crucial workouts for the Penn struggle...
This time Harvard hopes that Loren MacKinney will provide the spark to upset a favored Princeton eleven. He continued to occupy the blocking role while the team put in final practice licks for Saturday's game. Extra points and punting received a lot of attention yesterday, and the session was topped off with some concentrated work on the bags...
...Rubber which conducts electricity sounds like an anomaly-but such a rubber would be an advantage for airplane and truck tires, for rubber hospital floors. Reason: conducting rubber would continuously discharge static electricity, prevent it from accumulating to the point of spark peril. Static sparks in hospitals have been known to cause anesthetics to explode. In The Rubber Age, Engineer Howard E. Elden of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp...