Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...striking Nationalist losses are of peculiar significance. Last spring, the leaders of the party proceeded to tone down their traditional white-hot pro-monarchist anti-Locarno and anti-Dawes plan program in order to enter the mild centre coalition cabinet, then formed by Dr. Marx (TIME, Feb. 7, 1927). By this compromise they apparently lost the confidence of almost half the Nationalist voters, who had had faith until then, that the monarchy might be restored in some modified form and that Germany might some day successfully buck against the Dawes Plan...
...Today, after eight long years, the national indignation is still keyed to such a pitch that, last week, half a million Magyars welcomed with huzzahs and showered with Spring blossoms a bewildered young Englishman who entered Hungary with the words "Revise the Treaty of Trianon!" upon his lips...
...spring of 1778, after George Washington had moved his troops out of Valley Forge, that noble eccentrician, Governor John Hancock, put his bold signature on the last bill passed by the Provincial Court of Massachusetts. The bill gave young Samuel Phillips Jr. the right to open a school for boys at Andover, Mass. Horseman Paul Revere designed a silver seal (finis origine pendet) for the school; and 13 boys began to study under Eliphat Pearson, whom they dubbed "Elephant." In 1789, President George Washington came to Andover to make a speech; later eight of his nephews and grandnephews went...
...Michigan team, undefeated by Conference aggregations during its spring campaign, is relying on Bill McAfee to hurl it to victory. He is credited with the outstanding performance of pitching 23 runless innings in succession against Big Ten nines. Asbeck, giant Wolverine moundsman who succumbed to the onslaught of the Crimson sluggers in the first encounter, may also be called on for duty...
With the Yale game in prospect for Wednesday, the Crimson twelve has entered intensive practice during, the past week, when weather conditions allowed, and the results of this training should show in the match with Williams, whose team has taken only one of three games played this spring. The Purple aggregation has lost to St. Lawrence and St. Stephen's Colleges and has defeated Cortland...