Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scored in Yale Meet Last Spring...
Besides starring on the football squads of three years, Pratt has also figured heavily in the summary of the track teams, both Freshman and University for the last two years. Against Yale last spring he gained three second places in his specialties, the shot-put, the javelin throw, and the discus event. He also qualified for the Intercollegiates on the following week-end, and though he failed to break into the scoring column in the face of the country's best weight men, he showed sufficient potentiality to make him a serious threat for intercollegiate honors this spring...
...cocktail?" It did not seem to me quite right that I should let an old man break the ice for a cocktail in the middle of Harvard Yard on a frosty morning. Now if it had been summer or even fall, especially spring, I would have been able to give him my permission, for there is no ice then anyway...
...like an overpacked trunk when a big woman sits on its lid. Slowly she bashed her way up the St. Mary's, freed this ship and that, brought food and fuel to sailors. With continued cold, she may not reach all ships; some may be frozen tightly until spring...
...yarn by a scholar of the antique, if thta is comprehensible, a romance by an author who knows the romance of the past and proves that the truth or near truth after all is stranger than fiction. For the old preChristian festival of the coming of spring--in Plakos, the scene of the action, with the holy spring, the race of the young men and the sacrifices to appease a jealous God--on the outcome of which hangs of fate of the not unpleasing flapper heroine--lends a back-ground and flavor not to be found in the ordinary detective...