Word: sprang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have always insisted that the term originated with Andrew Jackson, a notoriously bad speller who was supposed to mark official documents O.K. for oll korrect. Woodrow Wilson used okeh on the theory that the word came from the Choctaw hoke, meaning "Yes, it is." Mathews' preference: that it sprang up first during the presidential campaign of 1840, when Van Buren's supporters organized a mysterious O.K. Club. The initials were those of Van Buren's home town: Old Kinderhook...
From the panic that accompanied the sudden shortage a tide of rumors sprang up: cortisone was being hoarded by the Government, being shipped to Russia, being bought up by gamblers to dope race horses, being bootlegged in a nationwide black market. In New York, the department of health began an investigation. The truth about cortisone is apparently less dramatic than the rumors...
...from Europe. The crews brawled incessantly because of the "numerous groggeries along the line." They were plagued by cholera. But finally, on Jan. 8, 1855, the first through passenger train from Cairo reached Chicago, its coaches lit by dim whale-oil lamps. Along its right of way, flourishing villages sprang up. Soon the Central linked up with Mississippi steamboats, opened trade to the Gulf...
...still puzzling three months later when he was promoted to captain and transferred to another regiment in Brescia, 275 miles away, There, for the first time, he pulled on his shiny new boots and marched off to report to his commanding officer. The interview was brief. Gualtierotti sprang to attention, clicked his heels, and was blown to bits...
Harvard has a new tree, sans root, fruit or leaf. Overnight it sprang to its full height of 27 feet in the new graduate-center quadrangle. Walter Gropius, famed professor in Harvard's department of architecture, designed the center and commissioned the tree from Richard Lippold, a Manhattan sculptor. Constructed of steel rods, it is intended to represent nothing less than "the world...