Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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No.1 track thrill for the 18,000 spectators was furnished by Kansan Glenn Cunningham. Apparently rejuvenated, after a disappointing indoor season, Miler Cunningham in a special race cagily let two capable competitors set the pace, unleashed a terrific spurt at the finish to set a new U. S. outdoor record...
...Lead spurt was equally remarkable in that only 800 shares changed hands on Feb. 26 and only 625 on Feb. 27, Lead stockholders preferring to keep their stock rather than take their profit. The shares have long been a widows-&-orphans' favorite, a gilt-edge security that has paid at least its regular $5 common dividend throughout Depression. Only 300,831 shares of common are outstanding and 25 individual holders have blocks of 1,000 shares or more, with these relatively large holdings amounting to about 47,000 shares. Another 58,000 shares are held by individual owners with...
...third Princeton Invitation Meet in June.* Joe Mangan, one-time Cornell miler who defeated Cunningham last month, was recovering from influenza. These two were scarcely missed as a cheering crowd watched Venzke dodge Cunningham's heels. On the last straightaway, with 40 yd. to go, Venzke unleashed a spurt, split the tape 6 ft. in front. To Cunningham went the credit of setting so fast a pace that the winner set a new world record: 3 min. 49.9 sec. In the final track event a hawk-nosed, granite-jawed Syracuse junior, Edward ("Obie") O'Brien, furnished another thrill...
...week for a dull, tarnished guillotine blade said to have cut off the head of His late Majesty. Up went bids from 2,000 francs ($135) until everyone dropped out but the plumpish unknown and that well-known collector of French Revolution mementoes, M. Charles Lievre. In a final spurt to 12,500 francs ($835), the blade went to M. Lievre, along with documents certifying that until 1893 it had remained in the executioner's family. Irate with frustration, the living image of decapitated Louis XVI bustled out of the auction refusing to divulge his name...
...Waiting for the gaudy Age of Reptiles to ring down its curtain, the little mammals had promising new equipment-hair for warmth, hot blood for cold weather, milk to feed their young on the move. Their brains grew bigger. When the mighty lizards died out, they were ready to spurt...