Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thse who want to understand the Church from which our times are largely sprung and who want to study one of the most powerful spiritual forces even to this day should try to see the Virgin of Guadaloupe as the Mexican Indian sees...
Last week in Philadelphia U. S. Customs officials discovered a ten-acre patch of marijuana. Marketed in cigarets it would have yielded a $125,000 profit.* Though it was apparently growing wild, the agents were sure so much marijuana had not sprung up by chance. Carefully guarding the secret of its location, they hurried to the Board of Health, had the marijuana patch declared a menace to public health and ordered burned with great public stench...
...trap has been sprung, a mouse is caught, the wire pressing with cruel force across its backbone, just above the hind legs. The front legs, neck, head and shoulders are free...
...last week David O'Shea sat in his cell without speaking, without moving. He never confessed. On the scaffold the trap was sprung by an executioner from England, a Mr. Pierpont...
...must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the Government. Such battles as we are in the midst of today cannot be won by any single stroke, by any one strategy sprung from the mind of any single genius. . . . Valley Forge met such a challenge to steadfastness in times and terms of war. Our test is to meet this challenge in times and terms of peace. . . . We are enduring sufferings and we are assailed by temptations. If we weaken, as Washington did not, we shall be writing the introduction to the fall...