Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Winters started the scoring spree with a 15-yard sprint around the end. Minutes later, Sam Cantwell blasted off tackle for 30 yards and the second touchdown. Nat Howard bucked the third tally over from the one-yard line and Winters booted the extra point...
Yesterday brought the first football weather to Cambridge--bright, hard sunshine that gave way to quick cold towards suppertime. But yesterday brought the Varsity back with a bang from its two-day spree to the same work they have been doing for a month...
After a heart-to-heart talk, his legislature formally quit suggesting abdication to the sporting Gaekwar of Baroda (TIME, Aug. 23), who, it said, had managed to run up an estimated $10 million tab on a six-week spree. The chastened gem collector agreed to grant "complete, responsible government" to his 3,000,000 people, and to pay back whatever the state's ministry decided he had spent...
...waiters, he fished out another $5. Next day, Major General Maharaja Sir Pratapsinha Gaekwar* of Baroda, one of the world's richest men, started his long voyage home to defend himself against charges that he had spent $10 million of state funds during a single six-week spree...
...place of the billions of marks now clogging Western Germany's inflated, paralyzed economy. The rate of exchange would be announced later, but the Germans would probably get only one new mark for ten old ones. Anticipation of the currency reform started Germans on a frantic buying spree to get rid of their old money...