Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With final figures on all courses not yet available a check up yesterday showed that an eleventh hour spurt to History 1 has sent its enrollment up to 732, high enough to nose out Economics A at 713 for the title once more of "biggest" course...
...geometry which made it appear that the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts (see below) served as a pat allusion for an editorial writer commenting on the cordial meeting between Alf Landon and Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 13), for a sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty Shop News requesting that a conference be held on "The Relation of Beauty to Human Behavior." The New York Times'?, gnomish, imaginative Science Writer William L. ("Bill") Laurence outdid himself by coining a word, "macroscope" (opposite...
...Pittsburgh Pirates: 7-to-4; a baseball game against the New York Giants, ending at 15 games the winning streak that climaxed the spurt that carried the Giants from fifth place on July 15 to first in the National League last week; in Pittsburgh...
...Flex tired muscles and keep them tense for several seconds to refresh them. They become fit for another round of fighting or another spurt of running in a much shorter time than if permitted to relax or if stimulated with a hypodermic injection of adrenalin. The reinvigoration is due, theorized Cornell's Drs. S. A. Guttman, R. G. Horton and Davis Truxton Wilber, to either: 1) the release of a potent chemical, acetylcholine, by nerve ends in the tired muscles, or; 2) a sudden excess of calcium in those muscles...
...last inning spurt by the Crimson was cut short as Tom Bilodeau lined into a fast double play which caught John Adzigian off second...