Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baseball coach Norm Shepard took his varsity home to the Southland for its spring tour, won two out of three games with an increasing show of hitting power, and had "a right good vacation...
...travelling salesman from Arlington invaded Holmes Hall, home of all Radcliffe girls remaining over the spring recess, last Wednesday morning at 4 a.m. He was apprehended by police and a watchman...
...rates for equivalent jobs are the lures. A surprising number intend to stay for a couple of contracts (two years each), save up enough to buy a motel back home. But the limited consolations of loneliness are a deterrent to savings accounts: some pretty rugged poker and crap games spring up in the bachelor camps. For men with families-there are now 3,400 wives and children with Aramco and its associated U.S. contractors-the air-conditioned houses, the tennis courts and swimming pools have made life increasingly livable...
When he concluded that the sap rises in trees because the spring wind causes a pumping action in the branches, a staffer, missing the chance for an argument-provoking essay in pseudo science, made the mistake of writing a Trib story setting out the scientific facts. The Colonel noted: "Our sap expert missed a trick...
...With a balmy spring breeze to hinder him in the stretch and a jivey Texas Longhorn band to egg him along, Kansan Wes Santee ran his first outdoor mile of the season at the Texas relays, broke his own American record by one-tenth of a second, edged up within a stride of the four-minute mile. His time...