Word: spurring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manner, selecting the men who will row in the crew with them. The idea is to make up four crews as evenly matched as possible so that the early work may be more interesting to the men and so that better competition will be afforded and good-natured rivalry spur on all the oarsmen in the squad. The four strokes will meet Whiteside late today and make their choices...
...Concord is the famed Rumford Press, printers of more than a score of national magazines, among them: Asia, Spur, Forum, Harper's, Polo, Atlantic Monthly, Yachting, Sportsman, House Beautiful...
...spur the land to action, to preserve all the people's moneys by getting some of the people to meet the emergency through their accustomed emergency organization, the President asked the Messrs. Coolidge, Smith, Davis, Young et al. to compose a Red Cross drive committee. All the 57 eminent citizens accepted. Mr. Coolidge was named the committee's head...
...held a sledge hammer in his hand. Up over his shoulder he swung it, awkwardly but resoundingly brought it down on a silver spike, pinning together a 90-lb. (per yard) rail and its first tie. Thus he began construction (by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.) of a Union Pacific spur railroad which is to link Las Vegas, Nev. and the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River, first step in building the $165,000,000 Boulder Canyon dam. Three thousand Southwest officials and others heard the Secretary exclaim: "I have the honor to name this dam after a great engineer...
...true facts are that a newspaper reporter failed to verify a report, falsely circulated with deliberate intent to spur on the crowd...