Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock on his mantelpiece had stopped going round. Mr. Miller pulled out his watch so that he might set the stopped clock. In doing so he pulled out $120 which fell to the hearth and began to burn. Mr. Miller dropped his clock key thereby breaking his clock spring in his haste to get water to extinguish his burning money. When he got the water and poured it on the fire, the steam which arose scalded Mr. Miller's child. Mr. Miller's money was completely burnt...
...Harvard man but the scene of the story is laid at Harvard before the war. Dos Passos has of recent years taken place in the first rank of American writers with his volumes "Manhattan Transfer" and "Orient Express" as well as his play "The Garbage Man," produced in the spring of 1925 by the Harvard Dramatic Club under the title of "The Moon is a Gong." He first won fame with his great war novel "Three Soldiers...
...particular interest to the Indian were the summer and winter ceremonies, for his life was ordered to a great extent in conformity to the changing seasons. The beginning of the new year was the first day of Spring when the new life from Mother Earth commenced to manifest itself. Then was the time for the planting of seed for the food crops. All was accomplished by the dramatization of planting, germination, and growth...
Tonight's dual track meet initiates a renewal of Michigan relations which extends to baseball this spring and football games...
...green socks to celebrate the occasion. The Western Union has concocted a series of "Top o' the mornin' to you" telegrams pasted on green blanks. Shamrocks sprout in every stationery store window. Nature looks complacently on her favorite sons and does her best to hurry along the forces of spring and tint the grass green. And the Irish poets do their best to prove that she has succeeded...