Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...places where U. S. businessmen habitually swap horseback opinions on the State of the Union, prime topic last week was the timeless question-How is Business? But it was not put in the usual form of a casual greeting. Not only had business failed to develop a normal autumn spurt: it was definitely on the down grade. The New York Times weekly business index has dropped steadily from above in. its Recovery high registered in the middle of August, to less than 105, lowest since last February. Everyone had heard disturbing tales of layoffs, close downs, price cuts, sudden cancelations...
...field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket. There was a spurt of flame from one motor, then silence...
...business triumph, which paved the way for his finally leasing the boxing rights at the great Madison Square Garden last week, was his promotion of the Braddock-Louis fight in Chicago last June, first heavyweight championship bout not staged by Madison Square Garden in 18 years. But the final spurt which sent him on his way to becoming top man in U. S. fight promotion began in 1934 when Madison Square Garden, longtime promoter of at least one annual boxing match for Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies, decided to discontinue that practice. Asked...
...recent two-hour address to proletarians at Hamburg, Labor's Ley key- noted : "Those German employers who dare to rate machines higher than men are going to be given plenty of opportunity to arrive at a contrary opinion in concentration camps!" In Italy's present production spurt toward rearmament, Labor's Cianetti dashes incessantly about the kingdom, addressing workers' meetings, hearing grievances and badgering big Italian employers like the Agnelli ("Ford of Italy") family in Turin whose members huff at mention of his name...
...admitted that he had never been to a basketball game before was also in the stands, and when that thrilling battle was over he had to admit it was a pretty good game. This rise of interest in Harvard has had its results, for all over New England the spurt has caused the sport to take a new lease of life. The only natural result will come when the court game is a major sport and the big League clashes are played before bigger houses, perhaps in the Boston Arena...