Word: springed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GRATEFUL APPRECIATION FOR YOUR "STUDY-PROVOKING" SKETCH "CONGRESSIONAL REVOLT OF '39" [TIME, July 31]. FROM YOUR OUTLINE AND FROM MANY A STUDENT PALETTE WILL SPRING COLORFUL WORD PICTURES OF A NEW PARTY-"THE REPUBLOCRATS...
...Last spring when everyone was shouting about the Reds' great pitching staff, no one hailed 29-year-old William Henry ("Bucky") Walters as an approaching tornado. A made-over third baseman whom Manager Bill McKechnie had bought from the Phillies last summer, Pitcher Walters had a natural sinker (the reason he flopped as an infielder) and miracle Manager McKechnie had taught him some tricks of the trade; but the Reds had much abler pitchers in Johnny Vander Meer, Lee Grissom, Paul Derringer...
...Yankees' outstanding pitcher, 26-year-old Atley Donald, is even more of a dark horse and even more of a twirlwind. Brought up from the minor-league Newark team last spring to learn the ways of the Big Time, the earnest Louisiana farm boy, who had gone uninvited to the Yankee training camp five years before to beg Manager Joe McCarthy for a tryout, was completely overshadowed by the famed Yankee pitching roster of Lefty Gomez, Red Ruffing, Monte Pearson and a half dozen others...
...soft, spring evening, three years ago, Frigyes (Frederic) Karinthy, popular Hungarian poet, sat sipping tea in his favorite Budapest café. Suddenly he heard locomotives rumbling, reverberating, dying away. Startled, he raised his head. He knew there had been no trains on the streets of Budapest for 40 years. But he took no treatment for his head-splitting hallucinations until his eyesight grew dim, his legs shaky, his stomach rebellious...
...cash crops. Not so, corn. Nearly nine out of ten bushels are used to feed hogs and livestock. The lower the price, the more feed for hogs; the more hogs, the lower the price of pork. With corn at 40? there should be many pigs in 1940. If next spring's pig crop reaches 80,000,000 little grunters, pigs and pork prices will nosedive, and Washington will have still another quota on its hands...