Word: sparks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crew abandoned her. After two days 16 of her seamen, some wounded and one dying, boarded her, blazing as she was, and put out her fires. They got her in commission and sailed her by dead reckoning to Ireland. Her normal complement was 42 men. One single spark, at any moment, could have been the end of the 16 who manned her. Fifteen of the men, and their ship, are in service today...
...combination's sales have skyrocketed twentyfold to over $25,000,000, profits have jumped tenfold to over $600,000. Come peace, Stanley Odium (who will join the Air Corps soon) has other plans: concentrate on trucks, get Rubatex to supply the rubber parts, while Connecticut furnishes spark plugs and ignition systems...
...critic, perhaps the most acute, but he has an uncanny nose for the unpopular attitude. When Toscanini was at the height of his glory and powers back in '36, Haggin thought he was a pedantic Italian opera hack, but now that the aging maestro has very obviously lost his spark, Haggin is daily discovering new wonders of poetic sensitivity and insight in his tired performances. He waited two months after the performance of Shostakovitch's fan-fared Seventh to turn out one of the most magnificently scathing reviews in the history of American criticism, but when Toscanini last fall revived...
...record of 7 out of 18 foul shots didn't help the Crimson cause any, and Brown will be out to develop some consistency in this department among his team as well as to find that evasive scoring spark needed for the coming League games...
Harvard's tradition of long-view pioneering in education is not a war-time casualty. The same intellectual spark that gave birth to the country's first case system and school for public administration has flared up again, despite the obstacles of collegiate conversion-to-war. Though only five months old, The Harvard Trade Union Plan, an educational experiment which is based on recognition of the major role labor will play in helping to settle post-war problems, has excited wider general interest than any educational project undertaken in many years...