Word: springs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of students who achieved Group I has risen since 1920, and the percentage of men who stay above Group V has jumped from 38.4 percent through the 20's to 53.3 percent in the best prewar year and to 62.2 percent last spring...
...Last spring the Council prescribed both this balloting and another election for a 1950 committee. At this time it passed a report by its Special Committee on Class Affairs, calling for both junior and sophomore committees to keep classes united until the senior year...
Thunder. The trouble began last spring when players, brooding over past grievances, organized a union; some felt underpaid, all were exasperated by the rules which allow clubs to sell or trade players at will. Wealthy clubs had taken to buying up promising hooters, not to play but to sit idle on the bench. A fortnight ago, the players put on a token strike. At exactly 3:45 p.m., in every stadium in Argentina, all players abruptly stood stock-still for one minute, then went on with the game...
...Last spring, 34-year-old Bob Campbell set out to rediscover the old strike. He formed a syndicate, raised $4,000, bought a boat and some Geiger counters. With two other prospectors he started probing his way along the rocky lake shore. In a whole summer of crawling into every cove and climbing 1,000-ft. cliffs, the trio covered only 60 miles. One night a storm wrecked their boat. The others gave up but Campbell stayed, got another boat and went on alone. Ten miles farther on, at a place called Alona Bay, his Geiger counter buzzed wildly...
...Lakes, much handier than distant Eldorado, in the Northwest Territories, Canada's only proved source of uranium. Toronto investors were willing to bet big money that the new strike was the real thing. By week's end, shares in Campbell's syndicate, which he peddled last spring for $25 apiece, were bringing bids of $1,000. Prospector Campbell and his backers were not selling...