Word: springed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Germany is probably stepping up her [airplane] production rate faster than Britain, France and the United States combined, so that for the next few months-probably until next spring or early summer-the Reich may well lengthen her lead. . . . After that time the Allies, aided by large purchases from the United States, should gradually overtake the German lead and eventually-perhaps by the fall of 1940 or the spring of 1941-outstrip Germany in quantitative production...
...figures if true mean that the air force of each side is evidently growing at the rate of more than 40 ships a day.) Expert Baldwin quoted official estimates of the potential of Germany's 28 factories and 400,000 workers at 5,000 planes per month by spring, but reckoned this figure a bit high. U. S. output may reach 900 per month in 1940, but the Allies cannot count on buying...
Meanwhile Peary, a Navy engineer, was starting his eighth try for the goal he had missed for 20 years. In the spring of 1909, at latitude N. 87° 47', he began the famed last lap, alone except for his Negro servant and four Eskimos. His claim: That in five days he covered the remaining 150 miles to the Pole (April 6), made the necessary observations, left a fragment of the flag and a message in a snow cairn, traveled the 150 miles back to the camp at 87° 47' in 56 hours...
Klaw, who lives in Adams House and Carmel, N. Y., prepared at Loomis, where he edited the Loomis Log. He was appointed to the Student Council last spring and is now serving on the Council's standing committee on Teaching. Previously he was active on the Council's Committee on Housing. On the CRIMSON he has held the positions of Secretary and House Editor. He is a member of the Signet...
When a dusty copy of the will of T. Jefferson Coolidge came to light last spring, the Corporation discovered that for forty years it had been mistaken about that document. Instead of establishing an unrestricted fund to encourage debating, as had long been supposed, the will provided that the sum was to be entirely devoted to prizes for outstanding debaters. The Corporation promptly enforced this provision, and the Harvard University Debating Council found itself penniless...