Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity in check for the first half as the first two midfields, drugged by general exams in the morning, failed to keep ahead of the opposition. The third line of Tim Anderson, Albie Wells, and Dexter Lewis was the top line of the day and led the second half spurt which netted nine goals. Anderson and Lewis had two goals apiece. Lewis three assists, and Wells one goal...
Even if the current upturn in auto output, housing, retail sales and other fields should prove to be no more than a seasonal spurt, the Administration would find public works no fast-working wonder drug. In the Big Depression, it took 18 months after the start of the Government's public-works program to get the first 100,000 men on the payroll. Even by 1939, when public-works outlays of $3 billion equaled about 3% of the gross national product, there were still 9,500,000 unemployed. Public works equaling 3% of today's national product would...
...empty cage, two solos, and one on a pass from Todd Goodwin. He also assisted on goals by Johnny Lane and Dexter Lewis for the outstanding individual showing of the day. Phil Waring couldn't hit the cage for most of the game, but put on a late spurt which netted him three scores and an assist. Monk Aiello had two goals, one assisted by Dexter Lewis, the other by Waring...
...After polling its members, the National Association of Purchasing Agents, which bases its forecasts on actual buying plans, reported that members look for a business spurt during the second quarter of 1954. ¶ Treasury Under Secretary Marion Folsom came out with a flat prediction that both personal income and gross national product for the first quarter would be less than 1% below 1953's record levels...
From another group of commodities came surprisingly similar news: the nonferrous metals, long in a downward spiral, were suddenly perking up. In an unexpected spurt of buying, lead prices rose for the first time in eight months (to 13? a lb.), picking up ¼? a lb. for two days running. Zinc jumped ½? to 9¾? a lb., its first rise in more than a year. Tin, tacking on a nickel, shot up to 93? a lb. as purchases were stepped up. Judging from the metal futures markets, which last week scored the biggest gains in years, metal speculators figure...