Word: spurring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swearing in of a President of Mexico no Bible is possible. Last week, as though going to a bull fight, those affable, spur-clinking atheists, President Abelardo Rodriguez and President-elect Lazaro Cardenas (TIME, Dec. 3), drove through a frantically cheering rabble to the National Stadium, packed with 50,000 inauguration addicts...
Perhaps these exams spur a few lazy scholars out of the pre-vacation slump, but in subjecting everyone to such an ordeal in order to stimulate a sluggish minority is patently unfair. The contention of others that they benefit by a review of their studies is true to a certain extent, but a quizzing of trivial details contributes little to one's education, while those broader essay subjects which evoke individual thought require more time. If some mid-semester's grade is necessary, then to submit term papers would be far more profitable than hour exams. Irksome and worthless, those...
Sherman Henriksen of Eagle, Neb., the defending champion, was a favorite, but even some Nebraskans favored Harry Brown, from Beemer, up in Cuming County. He had placed second last year. To spur on two Iowa entrants, Estherville sent its Drum & Bugle Corps to Fairmont. The folks from Redwood Falls, Minn, brought along the town band to cheer on their Ted Balko, 29, four times Minnesota champion, fifth in national honors last year...
...table came the cry of "Hurrah" as someone spied the steaming dish of,--(Lucille, what was it they had for a vegetable). Then came the dessert, pride of the Dining Hall Staff and so temptingly put forth that we suspect that Mr. Waistcoat had made a special attempt to spur our boys to victory. It was Harlequin ice cream, and all the boys knew what that meant. Such a combination of flavors, and all so tasty...
...face value of their policies-at 3½% interest per annum. Only 15% of the veterans failed to take advantage of the offer and some $1,689,915,531 was paid out to them as "loans." The Government has made no serious effort to spur beneficiaries into paying their interest, much less anything on the principal. Voluntary repayments total less than $1,380,000. Inevitable result: when John Veteran, who borrowed $500 on his $1,000 certificate in 1931, goes to collect the other $500 in-1945, he will get $188 in cash and a receipted bill for $312 worth...