Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uneasiness of the stock market, its fitful rises and falls, and its air of being about to start in both directions, has reflected the general business outlook. Some branches of trade and business are better, some worse. The spurt of the steel trade is reassuring, granted that former criteria are anything to judge by. On the other hand, the much-touted business cycle does not seem much in evidence just now, or to have marked tendencies of any kind. Industrial leaders make optimistic speeches, bankers are acting noncommittal, philosophers and Senators debate, merchants cut rates on unsalable heavy winter clothing...
Yale won a 4 to 3 verdict from the artillery men by a spurt in the closing minutes. Baldwin duplicated his performance of the Harvard fray and shot the winning goal for the Blue...
...misery of the economic breakdown of Europe," he said. "Any work of good-will to relieve these people can have the most profound effect of any method that could be devised toward a settlement of international problems. We need a new spirit in international affairs, and with a new spurt, new things are possible. Harvard can have her share in bringing this about...
...schoolboy team over the distance, was 12 minutes 8 seconds. J. Smith of Andover and B. E. Swede '27 came down the home stretch together, and it looked for a time as though the schoolboys would not keep their slate clean. Smith, however, pulled ahead with a final spurt, and Swede had to be content with sixth place...
...spurt in question came a little before the bridge, as the Seniors, now at 32, pulled up on even terms going under the arches. Sophomore B was about level with the others, and the three crews closely bunched together...