Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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English 31 is highly recommended to those with any skill in writing. If genius is present it will soon be brought out; but even if the spark is missing, the year will not be wasted, for the marking is eminently fair, and the general knowledge of writing which is accumulated will be helpful in any field of future activity...
...Ellsworth's boat, this time ahead of the others and traveling at nearly 60 m.p.h. The boat leaped into, the air and an official's launch picked up Ellsworth, unhurt except for a cut lip. Tennes, in second place when Ellsworth spilled, heard his spark plugs sputtering on the next lap. He waved to Jean Dupuy who passed him on the last lap and won easily, with his teammate Baron Alain de Rothschild third...
Some weeks ago a New York debutante wrote up her bud's eye view of the changing times for the Associated Press. Among trivialities she managed to strike one very significant spark. In her opinion, fewer college men were entering brokerage houses on graduation. There is no question that 1929 and the evanescence of our post-war dreams has robbed the stock market of much of its former glamour. But there is a new force operating to send the money-lustful young man into more constructive fields. Legislation now before Congress for the control of the national exchanges will...
...Spark which touched off the long-smouldering revolt was a ruling week before by Dean William Hane Wannamaker. Because he had not been present to preside, he had voided the trial of a student offender by the students' Pan-Hellenic (interfraternity) Council. Next day the campus rumbled ominously. Just before midnight some 1,500 students clumped grimly into the university gymnasium, heard quiet, studious Joseph T. Shackford, president of the Student Council, urge them to be orderly but determined. Jack Dunlap, football captain-elect, announced that the rebels would take over next morning's assembly period to present...
Johnny Abrams, Swarthmore captain, set his team in motion by scoring the first basket, and before the visitors could get their hands on the ball, the Garnet team had run up an 3-1 lead. The only spark in the contest came at this point, when Harvard rallied to bring the score to 8-5, but then Swarthmore swamped Harvard during the rest of the first period and the score at the half...