Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine miles outside of Moscow a local train, packed with commuters, halted at a switch-head before taking a spur track. Without warning another local swept round the bend and smashed full into the standing train's rear, plowed through almost its entire length. Wooden cars splintered like match boxes, dead and dying were strewn along the right-of-way. Peasants running up from the fields did their best to pull maimed bodies from the wreckage. They were laid on the parallel track while telegraph operators wired Moscow frantically for help. Suddenly a freight train, proudly burdened with Soviet goods...
...attending a banquet there when a man came up to me and said, 'you are broadcasting tonight. Just a moment. . . .' Before there was time to protest he had announced me, pushed the microphone into my hand and there was I, expected to make a speech on the spur of the moment which would be heard by thousands of listeners. ... I was received at the White House by President Hoover. The British Ambassador was with me and he and the President were very outspoken." The new Pascall itinerary includes South Africa, India, the Straits Settlements, Australia, New Zealand, ending...
Ruefully Soviet leaders admitted last week that the "staggered" five-day weeks proved a brake on production instead of a spur. The idea was that machines would run every day, tended by four-fifths of the workers. Each day one-fifth of the proletariat would rest, next day another fifth, and so on, but machines never...
...every house, and we liked the way every one congregated there for a demi-taste which one is served there (courtesy of the Corporation) after lunch and dinner. We liked the way the morning papers are stacked at the entrance of the hall, with no more urgent a spur to the conscience than a mute, coin-filled plate on guard...
...Peter Arno. Suddenly and surprisingly last week, those Chicagoans who buy the magazine found a new kind of Chicagoan on their newsstands. This time Publisher Quigley had Vanity Fair in the back of his mind. Henceforth The Chicagoan (circulation: 23,000), enlarged to the page-size of The Spur, will cost 50? the copy, will appear only once a month...