Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Interpretations of this study, as reported in last Sunday's "New York Times," were optimistic. They assumed that these figures might spur educators to a more thorough study of television, with an eye towards grooming the medium for a major role in educating America's youth outside of the classroom...
...said that famous men are usually the product of unhappy childhood. The stern compression of circumstances, the twinges of adversity, the spur of slights and taunts in early years, are needed to evoke that ruthless fixity of purpose and tenacious motherwit without which great actions are seldom accomplished...