Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most active centers of ancient Greek study in the country. The prime stimulus was Miss Mabel Whiteside, who functioned as a local Thalia, Melpomene and Terpsichore rolled into one. She and her students of Greek put on some 40 productions of Greek drama in the original language. In the spring of 1954, she fittingly climaxed 50 years of teaching at Randolph-Macon by presenting, not one more Greek play, but three--Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, the mighty masterpiece of the first great dramatist in history...
...This spring the Hutterites of Pincher Creek, Alta. quietly bought 1,000 acres of farmland near Lind, Wash., leased an additional 5,000 acres with an option to buy. Last week 23 members of the Bruderhof who went ahead to take over the new land were bringing in their first grain harvest. Pincher Creek's President Paul Gross was delighted with the results...
...Japanese trains." ¶ The national organization of the Sigma Kappa sorority notified its chapters at Cornell and Tufts universities that "for the good of the sorority as a whole," it was expelling them both. Though headquarters gave no specific reasons, the chapters had a pretty good guess: last spring, the Tufts chapter pledged two Negroes, the Cornell chapter one. ¶ At the request of the privately supported Asia Foundation, whose members include Author James A. Michener, Paul Hoffman and Eric Johnston, the International Correspondence Schools World Ltd. opened up special operations in Hong Kong and on Formosa to provide...
LOBSTER SHORTAGE has sent wholesale prices soaring to $1.25 a pound in New York City, 95? in Portland, Me., v. ten-year average of 50?. Reason: cold spring delayed until recently the lobsters' shell-shedding period, when lobsters are hard to catch, poor eating when caught...
That night, as spring rain turns into flood. Lovey feasts on filched delicacies in Robber Jim's rose-filled shanty, feels the first tug of happiness again. Fleeing the flood. Old Repent and Jim take Lovey back to the hilltop cemetery, there assuage her grief with a solemn second funeral for granny in a borrowed tomb. By the time her frantic parents find her, sorrow has thawed Lovey's heart, and love for Jim has helped her to reach again for life. Recognizing that even her parents, though foolish, are fond, Lovey is ready to leave the graveyard...