Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crossed the finish two miles behind Miss America X, She had a broken throttle at the carburetor on her starboard motor, a break in the overflow pipe for water circulation that shot water into the boat instead of over the side, caused Kaye Don to wonder if he had sprung a leak...
...University of Chicago last month Cleveland Oilman Fred G. Clark, 38, the Crusaders' founder and commander-in-chief, debated Prohibition with General Secretary Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals. During this debate the greatest Wet surprise of the year was sprung. It was evident that Commander Clark's purpose was to meet the Dry forces well over the halfway mark; to get them, if he could, to unite in a movement which would put Temperance above the 18th Amendment. The only barrier existing between the Crusaders and the Drys that he could...
...shall serve human interests!" he cried. "I shall serve also this French people from whom I have sprung and whom I have a good right to love with a particular affection. ... I wish to work," concluded Orator Herriot, "for the whole range of great human interests in this terribly difficult period...
Liver No Cause. An idea exists in France and the U. S. that eating liver (invaluable treatment for pernicious anemia) may arouse cancer or stimulate existing cancer. The idea seems to have sprung from research which found that experimental cancers grew faster in liver-fed mice and rats than in rats and mice fed on fresh uncooked muscle, vegetables, wheat or meat. Dr. William Hewy Woglom of Columbia University sought to check this research. He liver-fed seven dozen rats diseased with four kinds of cancers, concluded: "Uncooked beef liver . . . had no demonstrable effect upon the growth...
...Society was formed in 1906 and from it has sprung the Menorah Intercollegiate Association with chapters in 51 universities. An executive meeting of the Council will be held Thursday evening at 8 o'clock for the purpose of discussing next year's program...