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Word: sprang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night last week Lieut. Governor Kinne was driving his automobile along the dark roads from Lewiston to Orofino. Before him, as the car dipped over knolls, swung around curves, the headlights hollowed out a bright cone of light in the enveloping blackness. Suddenly, into the bright cone, four men sprang from the roadside, shouted to him to halt. Before he knew it, Kinne was grovelling on the tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tom & Huck | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...that instant shadowy figures sprang from the shrubbery. Two grenades hurtled through the air, fell beside the car. When they did not explode, a fusillade of shots rang out. Lieut. Gudinas, the aide, fell, mortally wounded as he shielded Professor Valdemaras with his own body. The small grandnephew was shot in the stomach. A passing young girl was hit in the leg. "Furthermore," wired an agitated Lithuanian correspondent, "one of the bullets penetrated Mme. Valdemaras' clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITHUANIA: Assassins! | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...pointed out that the idea of model assemblies is not new. Right after the conclusion of the World War many such groups sprang up. Students at London, Paris, and many smaller places were organized into international assemblies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S.P.I.A. HOLDS FIRST MEETING AT UNION | 4/30/1929 | See Source »

...Lieutenant-Governor is sick, he may be dying!" cried Sir Lomer's secretary, rushing into the Legislative Hall. Three doctor M. P.'s and a priest sprang up, dashed after the secretary to the anteroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Gouin | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Every few moments the guests sprang up, raised brimming glasses toward the white oriflamme of the Admiral's forked beard, and downed a deep health to the man whose famed policy of "sea-frightfulness" brought the U.S. into the War. Smiling pinkly behind his white whiskers, the Grand Admiral toped in response to each toast, declared at last to correspondents with perfect poise and pontifical gravity: "Despite the stark materialism of the present day, there still remains in Germany the germ of something that will get us out of the slough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: In The Slough | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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