Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stern jaw relaxes he can and does smile with a kindling light in his eyes. But searing experience has shown the man of steel that Russia must be driven, that only one man can drive. Recently Death took from M. Stalin the especial goad which he had set to spur Russian labor on to adequate production - Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, president of the Supreme Economic Council (TIME, Aug. 2). For the past fortnight it has been touted that M. Dzerzhinsky was murdered by agents of M. Zinoviev and M. Kamenev. To put down any hint of this M. Stalin is sued...
Hindenburg Boot. At the fair the first sight to greet him was the "Hindenburg Boot"?17 feet high, with a sole six feet long, equipped with a barbed spur-wheel two and a half feet in diameter. Six Doebeln shoemakers had taken seven months to construct it from the hides of ten oxen. Touched, the Herr President expressed his appreciation of the compliment thus paid him. It was constructed with still another purpose in view however?to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the Doebeln Cobblers' Guild...
...Spur to Academic Excellence" is the caption under which the Pennsylvanian, the daily paper of the University of Pennsylvania, greets the new Harvard policy. Like the Princetonian, the editors of the Pennsylvania paper urge some sort of imitation at that institution. The editorial says, in part...
Zion Park is the newest of all the country's national scenic areas. Although set aside some years ago by the Federal government, this area was not accessible until three years ago. At this time, the Union Pacific built a spur from Lund, Utah, to Cedar City, and the new spur was opened by President Harding on his ill-fated western trip, from which he never returned...
This terrain is the newest of all the country's national scenic areas. Although set aside some years ago by the National Government, this area was not accessible until three years ago when the Union Pacific built a spur from Land, Utah, to Cedar City. This new train service was opened by President Harding on his ill-fated western trip from which he never returned...