Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting, when President Dykstra presented his budget request, the Governor questioned his figures, asked for "simple arithmetic." Later he knocked $1,000,000 out of the budget. President Dykstra expressed the hope that the Legislature would restore some of the cut; Governor Heil accused him of spreading "propaganda." Last spring the Governor sounded off on the subject of the university as follows...
...drooping elms, gardened avenues, gingerbread architecture, the little fanelike spring houses, the old horse-drawn traps and flies pulled up along the main street, and above all, the shady racing park with the thoroughbreds circling under the linden back of the clubhouse before the races?all this makes Saratoga a picturesque American scene. Last week, for the 75th year since an Irish politician named John Morrissey founded the track for the spa's bored cure-takers, the annual August trek to Saratoga began...
...graduated from college with Honorable Mention in Economics, Banker Woodward began to build up his stud farm by learning all there was to know about blood lines. He scoured the U. S. and Europe for the blood he wanted. He evidently got what he was looking for. Last spring Horse & Horseman selected Woodward's 19-year-old Marguerite?whose four colts (Petee-Wrack, Gallant Fox, Fighting Fox and Foxbrough II) have earned over a half million dollars?as the most eminent broodmare in America. When in 1923 William Woodward felt that he was ready to pit his thoroughbreds against...
Determined to keep their hard-won baby, the Jacksons frantically combed Manhattan every day for a month, seeking a doctor who would offer them some hope. Last spring at the Neurological Institute they found young Dr. John Edwin Scarff. By this time the head of little eleven-pound Alice measured 18 inches in circumference. Dr. Scarff agreed to operate...
...Calif, four great searchlights stabbed. They stood like steady swords of light-or like the beams thrown up at Germany's annual Nuremberg Party Congresses. But these four rays signalled the four standards of Moral Re-Armament: Absolute Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, Love. MRA, launched in the East this spring, had been brought to the West Coast by Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman and 1,000 followers, many of whom traveled across the land on a 22-car "MRA Special." In the Hollywood Bowl, the Buchmanites sat on the stage beneath the acoustic shell newly labeled NEW MEN . . . NEW NATIONS...