Word: spurt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a brief spurt at the start of the last Harvard fell behind hopelessly as Ray Handlan and center John Werner ran rampant for the winners. Handlan, with his long set shots, was high scorer for with 18 points...
Bill Borach led a closing spurt by Adams House yesterday to tie its "A" league basketball game with Leverett in the closing minutes and throw it in to overtime. The Bunnies Lou Chizer put on pressure in the overtime period, and canned two straight to give Leverett...
...Eagles, winners now of six straight contests, could build up a lead of only two goals during the first two periods. But a three-minute, three-goal spurt early in the third period sealed the victory, and left Coach Cooney Weiland's team still looking for its first...
...Detroit Institute of Arts, may I express deep appreciation and admiration of the fine article and reproduction of the Bruegel "Wedding Dance"? It was indeed well handled, and we have already had many comments from our public. The Sunday after the reproduction appeared our attendance took quite an unusual spurt; undoubtedly many Detroiters did not realize that they had such a treasure house in their midst...
...normal condition of the Korean truce talks is deadlock. After a major concession by one side or the other, a brief spurt of progress usually follows, and then the deadlock settles down again. Hopeful observers who in July hoped for peace in August, and in October hoped for peace in November, and now hope for peace by New Year's, suffer from what might be called the fallacy of momentum. They assume that each spurt of progress will generate enough energy to carry the negotiators quickly over all the remaining obstacles. It never seems to work out that...