Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Competition soon began building up all over Cambridge. Harvard Square became a business and social center. The YMCA grow too large for the house and moved to its own quarters. Churches sprang up around the University and formed students groups of their own. By the early '20's, all the religious societies that had operated from PBH were dropped or absorbed by churches. According to a Yale divinity student in 1944 who did an extensive paper on Brooks House, religious interest here was "suffering from arterio-sclerosis...
...chapter series sprang from the success of Crusade in Europe, which you probably remember as the film based on General Eisenhower's book. Now being shown for the fourth time in some U.S. cities, Crusade in Europe proved the country's appetite for serious TV documentaries, a taste soundly confirmed by TIME-sponsored telecasts of Kefauver hearings, and by Your Stake in Japan, TIME'S joint CBS-ABC network program last week on the Japanese peace treaty...
...Monte Cristo" by romantic gossipists. Months before the party, the international smart set whispered excitedly that the guest list would read like the Almanach de Gotha. To be invited to Don Carlos' shindig became a distinction fervently desired by the gilded socialites of the continents. Black markets sprang up in most of the world's fashionable capitals offering cards to the ball for as much as $500 each. Jacques Path, Dior and Valentina were busy for weeks ahead whipping up suitable 18th Century costumes...
...stock market sprang another surprise last week. Normally, before a holiday, the market is supposed to turn dull and drop a few points. But last week, in a strong upsurge, it rose four points to 270.25 in the Dow-Jones industrial averages, the highest mark in more than 21 years...
...Attention!" called Colonel Walter R. Graham, Landsberg's U.S. commandant. Blobel stiffened; the hangman and his assistants slipped a black hood over Blobel's head, adjusted the heavy noose. A priest intoned a prayer. The trap sprang open with a clatter...