Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turf Court Championship, strode through to the round before the semi-final without defeat. Then Miss Goss, placed at No. 4 in the National ranking, was the worm that turned against Miss Mary K. Browne, No. 2, brought her down, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Miss Wills sprang to revenge her doubles partner, handily defeated Miss Goss, 6-1, 6-2. Then occurred another upset. Miss Ryan was sorry-it was the heat or something she had eaten, no doubt-but illness forced her to default to Mrs. Mallory. Thus it came about that in the finals the brown...
Presently a taxi drove through the mob. Out sprang two officers of the law, ran up the Cathedral steps, pounded A woman thrust her head from an upper casement, shrilled, withdrew. The mob laughed, having often during the past month seen the woman in the Bishop's house...
Almost at once, a solid cushion of fog robbed them of all observation of drift and ground speed. A powerful gale sprang from the northeast, forced them west, cost them heavily in priceless gasoline. Two hours later, they outran the fog, came out above a solid white of the polar ice, ridged, hummocked, corrugated like a sheet of twisted steel...
...Michigan City, Strangler Lewis sprang upon Wayne ("Big") Munn (TIME, Jan. 19), called the "Collegian" because he refutes every sneer at his excessive stupidity with the retort that he is a college graduate Neither could see very well. The Strangler's little red eyes had been inflamed by getting resin in them. Munn had a patch over his left eye which had been butted. After losing the first fall, Lewis applied 20 headlocks, hoisted the collegian over his shoulder, threw him over the canvas as a chambermaid throws a sheet over a bed. He took the third fall after...
...Miss Theodate Pope tied a lifebelt around her, sprang into the sea from the sinking Lusitania. The gentle swell of the ocean rocked her into unconsciousness before the rescue ship Julia saved...