Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minute shared that uniform wish-to see him hit the ball. To see him win the fourth and final event of his tremendous campaign to take all four major championships of the world in one year-or to be on hand if some freak of luck, or the sudden spurt of an inferior opponent put him out-these were minor considerations. They did not expect to see him play his best golf, for great golf develops only under pressure, and there is no amateur in the world who stands a chance with Jones six days in seven...
...Bright on successive days, Ellsworth Vines put out Frank Shields, twelfth ranking U. S. player and Richard Norris Williams II, twice (1914, 1916) national champion. He beat Shields with a spurt of brilliance after a slow start. In the first set he seemed indifferent. After a point had been settled he would shamble back to serve or receive with an absent expression, bored, disinterested. Once in difficulties, he showed his best game. Against Williams he lost the second set but then roused, ran away with the match. Next day he beat Hunter for the second time in a week. Erratic...
...record of earnings for the 19th and 20th Centuries in England and the U. S. has been one of alternating gains and losses. Hence he predicts: "If we do not have better fortune or manage better in the future than we have managed in the past, the recent spurt in wages will trail off, and after a time give way to a slow relapse, later to be followed by fresh advance...
...Even the greatest golfer in the world must have a bad round now and then, and in any tournament where five days of 18-hole matches lead up to a 36-hole final chances are high that one of Jones's mediocre rounds will coincide with a spurt of brilliance by some opponent. Short matches have bothered Jones badly enough in the U. S. amateur, in which only the highest 32 qualifiers are allowed to start. In the British Amateur there is no medal play elimination and the winner may be someone who, whether a good or middling golfer...
...daily practice the University eight, stroked by F. F. Colloredo-Mansfeld '32, has continued its pre-race showing by consistently leading the Jayvee and third boats in short heats. For all crews, the week has been devoted chiefly to rowing long stretches varied with an occasional spurt of five or six minutes...