Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little printed notice appeared in the Wiener Zeitung last week and with it passed another relic of oldtime imperial Vienna, the Vienna of Strauss waltzes and jangling, spur-heeled lieutenants...
Ergot is rotted rye. A fungus grows on the rye head and eats away the grains. What is left is a collection of hard bodies, each shaped like a cock's spur. Hence the name ergot, from French argot (spur). Good, dry ergot is of inestimable value in obstetrics. Its extract contracts the uterus and arteries, stops hemorrhages, raises blood pressure. Good ergot saves the lives and bolsters the health of hundreds of thousands of women annually. But bad ergot may contain poisons which cause abscesses and kill. U. S. pharmacists get their raw ergot from Spain, Portugal, Poland...
...apparently no cat's prerogative to serenade a professor. The inhabitants of Gibson Terrace, troubled by such nocturnal concerts, told the Harvard Housing Commission, and the Commission told the Animal Rescue League. The Animal Rescue League referred the Commission to the Cambridge police, and the police, on the spur of the moment, couldn't think of anybody to whom they could pass the buck, so they had to admit that they were licked. The result is that our worthy guardians of law and order are at present racking their individual and collective cerebra in an attempt to evolve suitable tactics...
...Printers of the Atlantic Monthly, The Century, Harpers, Spur, The Forum, Yachting, St. Nicholas, The Living...
...proportion to contemporary interest in those sports. Nevertheless failure to establish such teams is a direct contradiction to any policy of general physical training. Tournaments in wrestling, boxing, squash, create at best a rather unenduring interest in those sports, for the competitor who ventures into action on the spur of the moment is more than likely to give up his venture after a disastrous encounter in the first round. These include the men that, with the incentive of a numeral and the distinction of a place on a class team would choose to remain in the group of constant strivers...