Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cafeterias Spring...
Early in the spring of the year 1516 Juan Diaz de Lolis entered the great estuary on the east coast of South America, now known as the River Plate, Sent out by the governor of Castilla del Oro to search for a strait connecting the Atlantic with the newly discovered Pacific, de Lolis ascended the bay then known as the Mar Dulce as far as the mouth of the Parana River whore in 1516 he was killed by Indians...
...Last spring at Amherst, Son John indulged in a boxing bout with a Brooklyn, student,, was defeated. (TIME, March...
...Eclipsed? Super-Tuchun Sun Chuan-feng of Shanghai, who only last spring proclaimed the Yangtze Valley an independent state in vassalage to himself, found his subordinates deserting to Chang Kai-shek in such numbers last week that even his supremacy in Shanghai seemed threatened. The armies of Chang Kai-shek will assumedly make Shanghai their next objective; and among both foreigners and Chinese in the city there was last week the most intense excitement. The final seal of success was put upon Chang Kai-shek's conquest when the great Super- Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, telegraphed...
...home," declared President Harry C. Abell of the Association, "has ever been heated efficiently with coal. It is either hot, cold or indifferent." He predicted universal household heating by thermostat-regulated furnaces whose pilot lights would only need to be lighted in the autumn, turned off in spring...