Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...September the farmer pauses an instant in his harvest race against crop-withering frosts, to consider his year. Spring broke tardily everywhere in the U. S. Summer was generally satisfactory, in spite of brief searings of drouth in the central plains and musty weather in the south. At present boll weevils and hopper fleas are damaging the cotton crop to a small extent. In the northwest and in Canada rains worry the prairie farmers, as he prepares to harvest his grains. Elsewhere crop conditions are satisfactory...
Tensed like a tiger ready to spring, Super-Tuchun Sun Chuan-feng waited throughout the week with 40,000 soldiers mobilized at his stronghold in Chekiang Province, on the seacoast between Peking and Canton...
...political grave of the Ohio gang, the little flowers of indictment still grow every spring, scenting the air with the perfume of scandal and the breath of alleged corruption (TIME, May 17). Already the unsuspecting blossoms of Messrs. Doheny and Fall, Daugherty and Miller have poked their heads above the ground into the dew of publicity. Wary investigators plucked them, hurried them into stuffy courtrooms...
...authentic (but not at all unusual) impression of a medical student's nightmare. Bodies! Bodies! Bodies! Stuck all over the stage. Hung in midair, on dangling hooks. Rigid-as the law requires. Slowly they are wheeled in circles, yanked up, let down, by fiendish, invisible agencies. Occasionally they spring into action, appear as living, writhing creatures. Into this horror have strayed a few bits of freshness-Magda de Bries in a rattling dance, Moran and Mack, funny in spite of stale skits, Julius Tannen, dialogue comedian, and best of all, Julius Tannen's trained seal, who misbehaved beautifully...
...high; ventilation is by four stations operating 84 electric fans. Electric lights are placed every 20 ft. on each side; traffic lights every 240 ft. The capacity: 1,900 vehicles per hour at 12 m. p. h. each way. The tunnel will be opened to the public next spring, after thorough testing...