Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario some U. S. citizens feel a disloyal gratitude, for it was he who led Ontario Wets to victory at the last election (TIME, Dec. 13), and it is from soon-to-be-wringing-wet Ontario that numberless little boats will push off next spring across the Great Lakes with damp cargoes for the Middle West. Therefore when Premier Ferguson made a public pronouncement last week he was well heeded...
...considered by Great Britain in China as well as by the United States in Central America. But it is believed in England that the former methods were not as helpful as more generous ones. There seems to be a reasonable hope that a more dependable alliance will spring from concllintion in future. The principle is an old one, too infrequently applied. But if England can afford to apply it, America will probably not go far wrong in following out the same general line of policy...
...most part the soil is yet hard, sterile, and overgrown with weeds. Some sections have had no care for over twenty years. Yet some 6,000 species of hardy plants are now growing in the beds, 2,000 are in the cold greenhouse awaiting planting next spring, and over 2,000 species are being sown this winter. The 10,000 species of hardy herbs now listed in the office records include nearly all the species commonly grown and more than half the species known to be in cultivation. The most complete collection of hardy herbs on this continent...
Work this spring will be conducted along the same lines as prevailed this fall. There will be no attempt to grade University crews until absolutely necessary. This will probably be a few weeks before the first race. As has been said the purpose of this is to give every man a chance to prove his ability. He will also give the coaches an opportunity to pick up a man here and there who might conceivably be overlooked if a University squad were chosen when crew first begins...
Such a system ought to work to the advantage of any inexperienced men who came out for rowing this spring. Crew is a sport in which the man who has never rowed before should concede no advantage to the veteran. Many specific incidents could be cited of men who had never rowed before coming to college making University crews. Any inexperienced oarsman will be welcomed at the Boathouse this spring. Under the system outlined above, such men will be insured of all possible opportunity to make good in rowing. The coaches will watch them as carefully as the veterans...