Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first warm weather of spring, descending on Berlin at the Easter holidays, gave thousands of Berliners the urge to visit friends or go sightseeing in the opposite sector of their divided city. Trains between east and west operated at twice their usual capacity, and border traffic was unusually heavy. But not everyone was on a holiday jaunt. By last week 5,400 East Germans had taken advantage of the holiday crush to seek refuge in West Berlin. Defecting at the rate of 900 a day, they created the biggest mass rush to the West since the anti-Communist riots...
...Middle Ages and the Age of Faith, sighs many a modern Catholic, when the undivided Church was the warp and the woof of daily life, when men and not machines were the makers and doers. Nonsense, said the Rev. Walter J. Ong, S.J. last week to the 14th annual Spring Symposium of the Catholic Renascence Society in Manhattan. Today, according to Father Ong, an assistant professor of English at St. Louis University, is more an Age of Faith than the 13th century ever...
Despite a 9-0 loss to the Montreal team in Canada last spring, Crimson improvement plus the home field rate the team a slight favorite in today's game...
Although the Crimson lost all its games on its annual spring training jaunt to the South, Syracuse has fared little better this season. Both squads will be suffering from an excess of snow and little outdoor practice...
Bing Crosby will open the season as catcher on the strength of his home-run hitting splurge on the nine's spring trip. John Simourian will start at first, Bobby Clearly at second, Stu Levine at third, and Bob Hastings at short. Dick Fisher, Walt Stahura, and Matt Botsford will compose a hard-hitting outfield...