Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football team is making capital of the defeat by Centre College. They are working harder this week than ever before. The losing of the game is acting not as a poison to crush them, but as a tonic to spur them on. They have the goods with which to win against Princeton, provided the undergraduate body sends and follows the team to Tigertown with one thought--namely an expectancy to retrieve victory. W. H. TRUMBULL...
...radical element, the finger of guilt seems to point at Bolshevism. Coupled with previous and similar losses, and recent strikes in the manufacturing plants on the same scene, the case against the "reds" gathers weight. Until definite proof is offered, of course, it were folly to assume on the spur of the instant that any special group is at fault, but if investigation demonstrates that revolutionary propaganda is still at work to such a degree as to cause a $2,000,000 blaze, the occasion would be ripe for a renewed and thorough-going attempt to suppress this increasing danger...
...this capacity for the decision of new problems. In the solution of such problems in business the facts vary and must be obtained anew for each problem, but the habit and power of analysis and decision must have been acquired through long training. They cannot be improvised on the spur of the moment. This is the task of the Business School...
Here at home Lord Grey's words should spur the country on to demand an end to the deadlock. In his criticism he has shown the greatest discretion in realizing that anything he might say to our discredit would soon be multiplied a hundred-fold. For nations are very much like individuals who do not understand each other, and gossip soon kindles into libel and hatred. By applying the highest principles of individual to national morality, Lord Grey has set a precedent which makes permanent peace less an idealist's dream...
...with the news that Graduate Manager Berry has leased the Oaks, Cornell's historic training quarters at Highland, as the training quarters for the rowing squad which is now in training at Pough-keepsie. Coach Courtney was strongly in favor of the move in order to offer an adder spur to the leading candidates, as the Oaks have housed the Ithacan crew colony for many years...