Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Hearstian Herald & Examiner had helped to whip it up with daily scourgings of the "handful of political appointees'' attempting "to wreck the city's school system and rob her 500,000 school children of their educational birthright." A "Save Our Schools" committee had sprung into fervent being. Claiming to represent 40 civic organizations, it had deluged the city with petitions, dodgers, tickets for the mass meeting. Other clubs and societies had pelted the board with protests. Cried the Tax Service Association of Illinois: "What we are doing in Chicago is to take a backward...
...Yorkers had ever seen anything like it, but in California where Karl Moldrem first became interested in training small children, babies' orchestras have sprung up like weeds. In California it is considered normal for mothers to have cinema ambitions for their children and Karl Moldrem's baby orchestras are calculated to develop stage presence, self-confidence. His first baby band, in Eureka, Calif., presented the difficulty of finding real string instruments small enough for the players. (Wind instruments are too difficult for children.) The Sherman-Thompson Co. had some 13-inch violins made abroad, some 42-inch...
...world will agree that for only a brief period can a great nation be robbed by material means of the vital rights which under the divine law of things belong to it. ... From Pacifism has sprung a nonfighting aspect on life. Pacifists wrote of one who died on the field of honor as if he died an unnatural death. The battlefield is for a man what motherhood is for a woman!" Seriously worried, Adolf Hitler summoned his puppet Reichstag to hear a great speech on Germany's foreign situation. Should he back down on rearmament he would lose face...
...close. George F. Baker, the "dean of American business" said he "lost interest" when asked to give the first million. Instead he donated the complete amount. Dedication of the beautiful now buildings took place on June 4, 1927. Thus, in a quarter of a century, a flourishing school had sprung into existence, to teach, as President Lowell describes it, "the oldest of the arts, but the newest of the professions...
...found at three levels. He built a large refinery at Big Spring and a pipe line to it. He bought acreage in Willbarger County-and sold a small part of it for what the whole had cost. From Texas he sprang back into Oklahoma. By 1929 he had sprung back into the boots of a 15-million-dollar...