Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spur to economic expansion is concerned, the unsatisfied wants of an existing population are just as real as the elementary needs of a new population being born...
...trained hunting and shooting dogs and breeders of show dogs sent many of their prize specimens to Australia, Canada and the U. S. Last week many U. S. dog lovers were helping keep British hounds' noses keen, setters' coats shiny, poodles' hindquarters plucked. In Nashville, Tenn., Spur Oil Co.'s President Mason Houghland has begun regularly to hunt twelve and a half couples from the pack - famed for their hybrid Welsh traits of nose, voice, homeliness - of Master W. W. B. Scott of the Broadway Hunt in the Cotswolds. Five other Scott couples are with...
...State's choice Indian Territory land to 20,000 settlers lined along the border. Racing frontiersmen found many of the best spots already occupied by border-jumpers who had got there "sooner." * In 1913, Carlton Chilton, then 17, grabbed $2,000 from a bank counter on the spur of the moment, while a clerk was out to lunch...
...Order of Santissima Annunziata upon Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Papal Secretary of State. This decoration, which makes its owner an honorary "cousin of the King," has long been held by Pius XII. Next, the Holy Father gave Foreign Minister Count Ciano a moderately good decoration, the Order of the Golden Spur. The Vatican whispered that this week Il Duce is to pay a formal call on Il Papa (although the Pa lazzo Venezia was not so sure), and that this spring the Pope will again break precedent by making a tour of Italy's cathedrals...