Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that was then sweeping Texas. In addition to many old-time operators thousands of persons hastened to Texas who knew nothing at all of the business. Enormous areas of the State were placed under lease, thousands of wells were drilled in the Ranger, Burkburnett and Desdemona fields, and skyscrapers sprang-up in Dallas and Fort Worth to furnish office space for the oil companies and lease-scalpers...
...year and a half after the signing of the Armistice. Mr. Merrill was in charge of the Central Turkey College and the Near East Relief work at Aintab in the heart of Turkey. This country was a center of fighting between the French and the Turkish Nationalists who sprang up after the recent war. The city of Aintab was besieged for over a year by the French and only recently captured by them. Mr. Merrill escaped during the siege about six months ago, but while he remained in Aintab he acted as--a go-between for the French...
...much to rouse the public to this double function of the schools, and for a time it found its expression in the military units which sprang up all over the country, the summer training camps, and the general stress laid on physical development. Since the war, unfortunately, this feeling has largely died down with the result that the schools seem to be slipping back into the old paths of physical carelessness and haphazard methods of physical training...
Eastman is another substitute who sprang a surprise last Saturday. Hubbard's knee does not seem to be so serious as Gaston's wrist, but the return of the trouble with his semi-lunar cartilage, which bothered him at Milton, may keep him out longer than is now expected. If this is the case, the coaches will be grateful for a man of Eastman's calibre to fill the gap between Tolbert and Kane...
With the publication of his "Old Huntsman," Sassoon sprang into instant prominence, and his "Counter Attack" has led critics to place him in a class with Masefield and Noyes...