Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From her plains and mountains we have sprung...
...Miss Stevens, who was once sprung from the District of Columbia jail by Dudley Field Malone* after suffrage-picketing of the White House, holds that women are created free and equal with men, scorns all protective legislation for women. To the opposite female faction-who favor not equal rights but special rights for women-it was unthinkable that Miss Stevens should occupy so exalted a post. Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Molly" Dewson, and many another New Dealer belong to the opposition. Yet for ten years Miss Stevens kept her seat in spite of all the bonfires they could build under...
Harvard's fame has sprung from two sources--the great professors who have resided here and the teachers who have taught the numerous leaders it has sent into the world. There is no apparent connection between these two elements; students are painfully aware that "famous names" have only the most indirect influence upon them. Formerly Harvard's fame accrued more from the first source than from the second. Now, in its fourth century, its renown is maintained by the leaders in every walk of life who have been educated here...
...easily disposed of as a small and lucky team. It was the same college from Danville Kentucky which trounced Harvard a number of years back, when the Crimson was tops in the country. And it was from that college and that team that Be MacMillan, the present Indians coach, sprung...
...pamphlet. But, they explain, "Our civic pride got the best of us. ... So in stead of writing a little, book in a month, our civic pride cost us 15 months." Says Author Henderson privately: "We wrote it in every bar in town except the new ones which have just sprung...