Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business world. Long a private collector who specializes in paintings by oldtime U.S. artists like Winslow Homer and George Inness, Thomas J. Watson has spent the past four years talking art-mindedness to U.S. business, has had his own International Business Machines Corp. go on a spree of art buying and exhibiting that would have shamed many a patron of the Italian Renaissance...
...Nick's came back strongly and carried the game to O'Neill, who remained impregnable. Everts scored the final goal just 25 seconds before the game's end when he jumped the opposition and raced down the ice on a brilliant solo scoring spree...
Gordy McGrath had three goals to his credit, and Johnny Paine two. The rest of Harvard's 18-goal spree was made up of single tallies by Captain Greely Summers, George Dreher, Johnny Burton, and George Gebelein...
...Gold Coaster's powerhouse took to the air yesterday afternoon to blow the Leverett Bunnies off the gridiron 33 to 0. Only Adam's victory over Eliot has been able to match this scoring spree so far in the House league. At the same time the Claverly Clippers turned back the Dudley shuffiers...
...thumping headache last week followed the shopping spree which sent U.S. citizens scurrying into stores to buy before the stiff new Federal excise taxes clamped down, Oct. 1. They woke to find that, on purchases made after the new tax went into effect, they not only had to pay the increased tax but several times the tax increase, because of the retailers' time-honored system of price markups...