Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than at any time in six years, October cotton was quoted at New York for 1½? less than the week before. The auto industry was in its summer stagnation period. And out from under U. S. business was knocked 1939's firmest prop: building's spurt to new monthly highs. The Annalist reported that building-earlier in the year up some 70% from the 1938 low (adjusted seasonally), and almost 25% from the 1937 high-had declined for the second successive month, to the lowest level since July...
...American Henley which had been running all morning was climaxed in the afternoon by the most spectacular contest of the day, as the trailing Crimson 150's put on a breath-taking superman spurt to pass the Yale lightweights for a full length within the last quarter mile. This gave them the Wright...
...great majority of people appear to believe*. . . that business confidence would be restored if the Budget were balanced and that the spurt of economic activity that would result would accomplish our common aim of recovery...
...Stevens collected 16 and 15 points respectively, chiefly of the long shot variety, to turn a tight defensive battle into a Yale victory. Despite this effective long-range sniping by the two Elis, the contest was not decided until the final ten minutes when Yale staged a determined spurt to put the game...
...aeolian depths of the Park Street subway station, the Vagabond emerged into walls of rain and one of those incomparable Tremont Street typhoons. During a moment of vexation, he wondered if Orson Welles and Burgess Meredith were really worth all this. But Vag fought to subdue his sudden spurt of misanthropy and pushed on. After all, he told himself, he was about to have an opportunity to absorb the liquid words and sly wit of two great Thespians, and absolutely gratis, to boot. True, it wasn't a performance of "The Five Kings," but it was an interview...