Word: spurt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same deep roots in the German people. Why, if they accepted Freud, they would have to stop beating their children." In Switzerland the Calvinist conscience stands in adamant resistance to Freud. In France le Freudisme was little more than an intellectual fad between world wars, but took a spurt when it was reimported in 1945, along with jive and chewing gum from the U.S. The spurt has died; so, almost, has an offshoot psychanalyse existentielle, developed by Jean-Paul Sartre...
...Final Spurt. When the vehicle reaches 300 miles up, it will be at orbital level, above nearly all the atmosphere and pointing in the right direction. But its speed will be only half the speed required (17,000 m.p.h.) to make the satellite stick safely to its orbit. Reaching orbital speed is the job of the third-stage rocket. The final rocket will be small and will use solid fuel, which requires no tricky pumps or valves. It will fire for 30-60 seconds, depending on how much accelera tion the delicate instruments in the satellite can take without damage...
With the Elis ahead at the half, 35-30, the Yardlings put on a brief spurt and took the lead with eight minutes gone in the final period. But led by Bill Bodman, who led both teams in scoring with 27 points, the Blue took the lead for the final time. Coach Bruce Munro's boys could not catch the Elis despite a determined effort by the Crimson squad...
This sudden spurt put Yale ahead, 46 to 28, at the half. Harvard slowly cut the Eli margin during the second half, but never could get closer than six points. In the final minutes, slow and deliberate play by Yale forced the varsity into several fouls, all of which were quickly converted into points by the accurate Elis. In the last six minutes the winners scored only one field goal, but made 14 straight free throw attempts to clinch the game...
...defeat definitely marked an end to any varsity hopes for a return trip to the NCAA championships in Colorado. These hopes had been based on a post-Christmas spurt which had given the Crimson ten victories in eleven games and on Saturday's 5-3 defeat of Boston College...