Word: spurring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earle Elmer Meadows, 24, and William Healy Sefton, 22, pole-vaulted separately before they entered U.S.C. in 1933. Beginning at 10, Earle practiced with an old rug cane and clothesline strung up in his Little Rock front yard. Anxious to spur his son's aerial career, Father Meadows, a cloth manufacturer, offered him a nickel for every inch above 5 ft. that he could make. In 1932 when he was a high-school senior at Fort Worth, Earle cleared 13 ft. to establish a Texas scholastic record, 6½ in. less than the national interscholastic record Bill Sefton...
...Hull) and a number of electrical tours de force, old Mallory manages to surmount beatings, blindness and bullets, finally defeat both gangsters and Ranger. Best shot: a tough gangster named Fingers (Ward Bond) vibrating helplessly from the shocks of a miniature electric chair which Inventor Mallory concocts on the spur of the moment...
...Coronation is more than a drawing card for tourists and a spur to British industry; it symbolizes the tradition of unity and solidarity that has kept a broad-minded monarchy above the harmful reach of political revolutions and personal disabilities. It is an unconservative burst of pride for the loyalty of its subjects. Like the tawny cat who introduces and MGM picture, the Coronation will sound the note of exultation for the future weal of the British Empire...
...Freshmen in the Yard was a completely dismal failure, and seems to be a good example of the degeneracy which has set in among the younger generation. In past years the clarion call of "Rheinhardt" was enough to set the manly, virile blood of our predecessors in motion, and spur all good Harvard men into action. But times have changed, and past generations of men are being supplanted by a third rate lot of "wee cowering timorous beasties...
...acres of Adirondack resort land, including 23 miles of navigable waterway and ten lakes. Neighbors like Edward F. Hutton and Ogden Reid collected their mail from Paul Smith's township postoffice, used electricity from Paul Smith's Light & Power Co., shunted their private cars onto a railway spur that the Smiths built from the New York Central at Lake Clear Junction. When the old hotel burned to the ground in 1930, Phelps Smith remarked that the hotel business was no longer what it had been anyway, replaced his father's palatial edifice with groups of snug cottages...