Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend Rees Edgar Tulloss, President of Wittenberg College, Spring field, Ohio, will conduct services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...good spring nights the Yard should ring to "Bow, bow, ye lower-middle classes" in place of "Rinehart", and nothing could be more appropriate this week than "A policeman's lot is not a happy one." So, bow, bow, you slaving underclass men, to the inevitable, and order your tickets in advance...
...April, 1912, nobody followed icebergs, which drifted free, unchaperoned. One drifted into the liner Titanic, then the pride of the White Star Line. The Titanic sank with 1,513 people. Now, in April, 1927, with transatlantic travel reaching its spring height, with glacier-born icebergs drifting busily south, the Tampa, the Modoc sail northward, charged with preventing a repetition of the Titanic disaster...
George Voight, 30, of Washington, D. C., was tasting deeply the last blood of winter, the first blood of spring, at Pinehurst, N. C. In the qualifying round of the annual North and South Amateur tournament, Voight achieved the kind of scoring ordinarily unknown outside of dreams. The first 18 holes he made in 67, the second in 68, a total just one stroke above Bobby Jones's record of 134, at Sunningdale, Eng., last summer...
...picked up lint, bread crumbs, hairpins, cigaret butts, needles, roaches, broom, straws, candy, germs. The matted filth made a capital nest for mice. But broom or sweeper cleaned only the surface of the carpet. To get the deeply imbedded dirt the careful housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang them on the clothesline in the back yard and then hope for a tramp to come along and whack the dirt out of the carpets. If no bummer appeared, she knew that she would be obliged to quarrel with her husband that evening before he would do the "dirty...