Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hong Kong and North Africa. Britain has a reserve of 4,000,000 trained or partially trained men, but they have virtually no equipment. The British army is underpaid, but so far the Labor government has not been able to bring itself to grant a pay raise which would spur enlistments-it might make trade unionists jealous...
...rowing hands it was a repetition of the confusion that often prevailed at Poughkeepsie. The ripping current dragged the marker buoys and finish line out of position. The observation train (a revenue producer that helped to spur the shift to Marietta) broke down. The course had to be shortened to two miles. Finally the abbreviated races got under way two hours late. Washington won the first race for freshmen; its junior varsity won the second...
...legislator, considering the overall question of the poll. "What is Harvard's place in the Commonwealth so far as the General Court is concerned?" wrote that the University's lack of influence in the legislative and official life of this state should spur its students and faculty to careful introspection. An assent to this view was more specific. It suggested that Harvard make available its faculty for adult education programs and that the Business School broaden the sort of men its teaches...
...Governor's mansion at Salt Lake City, Utah rode a cowboy on a pinto pony last month. The cowboy was Denver Post Reporter Robert Fenwick, masquerading in chaps and ten-gallon hat. To amused Governor J. Bracken Lee he presented one silver spur and an invitation to come to Denver to pick up the other one. Twelve times during the month Cowboy Fenwick and his pony (carted around in a truck) repeated the stunt at other state capitols in what Post Editor and Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt likes to call the "Rocky Mountain Empire...
Since the agenda of meetings often are not announced until an hour before the opening of UN session, members of the U.S. Mission to the UN must often organize their stand on vital issues almost on the spur of the moment, Richard S. Winslow, Secretary General of the Mission said yesterday. He addressed a meeting sponsored by the Harvard UN Council and the International Affairs Program...