Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coming out from behind in the last few minutes of play to win from an efficient Yale trio, the Harvard polo team sent nine goals between the markers in a scoring spurt which won the game 13 1/2--12 at Yale's indoor riding hall Saturday...
...administration completely forgot its ideals, however, when it accepted this invitation. It means a tremendous spurt in that ballyhoo and sophomoric enthusiasm deplored in recent years by men and women--including President Butler--who have seen the growing vices which such unmitigated emphasis was developing...
After a sensational three-month spurt President Roosevelt's recovery program was slowing down last week. Farm prices had sagged from July highs, leveled out flat. September business was lagging behind August. NRA had yet to produce its miracle of re-employment. Public works made more headlines than new jobs. Banks were still tight-fisted on credit. Labor troubles pocked the land. Price rises due to NRA tended to cancel out A. A. A. gains in farm purchasing power. President Roosevelt was being bombarded with redoubled demands to turn to direct currency inflation as the one quick, sure means...
...across the line first. At the first turn in the 7-mi. oval course Miss America X swerved past him. Thereafter Gar Wood patently tantalized Scott-Paine. Miss Britain III, leaping from the water every half mile, would inch up on Miss America X. Miss America X would spurt ahead, then relax. Neither boat broke records Miss America X averaged 86.937 statute m.p.h., Miss Britain III 85.789. But Scott-Paine was only 22.33 seconds behind Gar Wood at the end and that was the nearest Gar Wood has let any contender approach him in the Harmsworth Cup races...
Despite the amendment's spurt in the last six months it looked last week as though Mrs. Kelley's goal, once so remote and so futile, was destined to be achieved faster and better by voluntary code agreements in Washington under the pressure of an emergency than by the cumbersome constitutional method. If so. the children of the nation can thank the Depression for setting them free...