Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening yesterday in the Poetry Room of Widener Library is a showing of the finest Keats collection in existence. The manuscripts and rare volumes were the center of the library formed by Amy Lowell and were the spur which led to her published study of the post...
Last spring under the spur of the two blowtorch lynchings at Duck Hill, Miss. (TIME, April 26), the Gavagan Bill, a similar anti-lynching measure, passed the House. Passage by the Senate therefore meant that the bill would become law barring the unlikely event of a Presidential veto. So as predicted, Texas' Tom Connally promptly organized a filibuster. Not as predicted, that filibuster last week rounded out ten days and had gathered so much momentum that Tom Connally jubilantly announced he would keep it going if necessary until Christmas...
...Dunbar and Estelle B. Hunter, sells a speech training course in 15 lessons at $1.85 in group lots, or $5 to the individual. The institute's unique sales technique is to persuade corporation managements that their employes would serve them better if they talked better. So strong a spur is company endorsement that sometimes the institute sells every single employe. Biggest customers: employes of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (11,067 courses), J. C. Penney Co., Inc. (11,000), Sears, Roebuck and Co. (10,750). All told the institute has sold 650,000 courses in hundreds of corporations...
Well known to hundreds of newspapermen were all the members of that party. Bradish Johnson, the dead chocolate-passer, was a 26-year-old Manhattan socialite who had spent much of his life in Paris, was taking photographs and sending articles from Spain to Newsweek and The Spur. The other fatality was Ernest Richard Sheepshanks of the British Reuters News Service. A superior young British bachelor, he was once captain of the Eton cricket eleven, followed the armies of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, and won the awed admiration of Italian aviators in Salamanca by dressing...
...from secreting pores, not teats. But as do birds, it lays eggs. Like fish and turtle, it feeds on water-life. Like the mole, it burrows under ground. Like the duck, it has a broad bill and webbed feet. Like some snakes, it carries venom (male only, in a spur on its hind leg). And it has a beaver-like tail which makes it seem double-ended. Its fur is coarse, runs in color from dark brown to silver grey. No woman would choose it for its beauty or usefu1ness...