Word: spurring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because they are hungry. Indeed each locust eats comparatively little on the migratory flight, consumes much of its own fat, arrives lean but wrought up to the highest amorous pitch. Authorities now propound the theory that the locust migrations are a sexual manifestation, as though Mother Nature employed this spur to spread her grasshopping children as far and wide as possible...
...rare ability to drive straight home to the heart of the situation with a clarity of vision and a spiritual vividness that is profoundly invigorating. He sends his barbs, his shafts and his thunderbolts in well ordered legions. His keenness is surpassed only by his Utopia. He applies the spur so much needed in arousing an earnest interest in education, the most permanent social contribution of the age. There is no individual, no member of society who can afford to overlook this living philosophy. The leaders of the coming generation, especially, should consider themselves ignorant unless they keep step with...
Author Ben Ray Redman, 34, served in the Royal Flying Corps during the War, was scout pilot of the 79th Squadron of the British Expeditionary Forces. Poet, critic, essayist, translator, short-story-writer, he was literary editor of The Spur, now writes a weekly column, "Old Wine in New Bottles," for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1926 he married Actress Frieda Inescort. Other books: Masquerade, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gustave Flaubert-a Biography...
...professionals. A pro will have to be good to get and keep a reputation under the new system, whereas before there was no way of telling whether a pro were really capable of a good brand of tennis or not. The amateurs too will have the added spur of knowing that it is really the world's championship they are playing for instead of a mere title...
...generation in the United States confines its outbursts mostly to matters academic which have aroused their wrath. Be it faculty infringement on their privileges, the removal of a popular professor, or any form of unjust domination, a riot may be the answer. Riots made to order, riots on the spur of the moment, or riots made necessary by the clammy hand of tradition, they are always a protest against the limitation of freedom...