Word: sprang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When supermarkets sprang up in the early '30s, Mr. George and Mr. John thought them mere Depression pan-flashes. Not until their own sales tumbled did they realize that supermarkets were putting their own "combination" stores out of business. But if the Hartfords started late, they moved fast, started opening supermarkets right & left, and added such wrinkles as pre-packaged meats & produce, weighed and pricetagged. They expanded by contracting. Each new supermarket closed some six of the old-type A & Ps so that the number of stores dwindled from 1930's peak of 15,737 to today...
When group practices with hospital insurance sprang up anyway, they were "medical soviets." When whole state societies formed plans, the AMA gave ground, but went on giving the black spot to any doctor who joined programs outside the societies. In 1943 the Supreme Court unanimously convicted the Association of conspiracy to obstruct (by expelling members) medical care organizations other than those they sponsored...
Skillful editing, scoring and commentary combine to humanize the animals almost as if they sprang from the Disney drawing board, and produce an engaging little story in which Hero Beaver and his friends outwit Villain Coyote while some frivolous otters and baby ducks supply the comic relief. Paul Smith's score is a miracle of synchronization and humorous comment. The film's piece de resistance: the frogs and crickets croaking and chirping through a chorus of the sextet from Lucia. Well worth sitting through a dull feature for, Beaver Valley is both an informative nature study...
...hats, chocolate-colored jackets and black trousers pitpat swiftly along the roads in bare feet, carrying produce to market in baskets balanced on poles over their shoulders. As my jeep left the road and followed the twisting, hedged lane that led to Bai Trang, war -or preparations for war-sprang to view. A rough stone wall protected the village. It bore the crudely painted inscription: "Da dao bon pha dinh pha dinh chua ro nha" (Down with the men who make the misery of the people, who destroy the temples...
Seventh Day Adventism is a flame that caught during the great blaze of evangelism which swept through the U.S. in the middle of the last century. To many of the "saved," the prophetic passages of the Bible took on a new importance, and here & there the conviction sprang up that the time for Christ's return was close at hand. The Seventh Day Adventists, so-called because they celebrated the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday), set no date for the second coming, and they avoided a set creed. But Adventists adhere to a strict code: no unnecessary work on the Sabbath...