Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even Freshman class government takes its name from the Union. Each fall a group of 12 Yardlings, called the Union Committee, is chosen to administer class affairs. Up to last year, the Union Committee was replaced in the spring by elected class officers...
After all this drumbeating, Ham turned pacifistic. Last spring he proposed a National Committee to Keep America Out of Foreign Wars "to counteract the inspired propaganda which has created mass war hysteria throughout the Nation by inflaming the fears and passions of our people." In April, on a nationwide radio hookup, he begged "an end to all this war talk." In May his committee was offering $100 prizes for essays on "Why America Should Keep Out of Foreign Wars," and Congressmen were beginning to refer to their alarmed colleague as a "Leader of the Ostrich Bloc...
...ropes and pulleys that holds the two paintings back-to-back in his studio, flips them like a coin for his inspection. Full of movement as a cinema is Oklahoma Land Rush (see cut), with its wheels carrying a circular motion clear across the canvas. On the light spring wagon Curry amused himself by lettering: Curry Wagon Works, Madison, Wis. Under the legend OKLAHOMA OR BUST, on the covered wagon, was the name Hal Ickes until friends of the Secretary of the Interior pointed out that no member of the Ickes family took part in the land rush, and Curry...
...warm spring day in 1820 a tall, towheaded, 14-year-old farm boy named Joseph Smith stumbled into his parents' log cabin at Palmyra, N. Y., looking as though he had seen a ghost. He had just talked with God in an oak grove. "And it came to pass," reported ragged Joe, "that the Son spake unto me, saying, 'verily, verily, I say unto you, my servant Joseph, that a new church will be established in these latter days and you will be my prophet...
...crept up behind the Wodehouse technique, tried to sprinkle salt on its tail, only the Old Master himself can really catch it. He does it by rewriting everything at least three times, concentrating and sharpening his effervescent prolixity. Thus revised, markedly improved since its serialization in the Satevepost last spring, is Uncle Fred in the Springtime...