Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to clear out the mucus accumulating in his paralyzed lungs. Last week in Houston, a group of polio researchers was told of a machine that both breathes and coughs for its occupant. This "lung" operates by means of a gadget that permits it to explode a sudden spurt of air against the patient's chest. It has passed its first laboratory tests. To perfect his gadget, Columbia University Researcher Alvan L. Barach got $8,300 from the March of Dimes fund...
...Holler & Spurt. There was plenty of evidence last week that such a tightening could not come too soon. Despite FRB's credit pinching, bank loans kept right on rising to new alltime highs. And even though builders had hollered at Regulation X (TIME, Oct. 23), housing starts in 1951 might well be higher than FRB intended. Furthermore, the auto dealers were using old figures when they talked of slumping sales. With a threatened cut in auto output, car sales have recently spurted upward again. Nevertheless, FRB thought that tougher credit controls might check inflation-if given a chance...
...Providence, Colgate over Brown, 35-34, despite a 27-point last-period spurt by Brown, in the day's top thriller...
...million Saturday, Harvard played winning football. Although the second-half spurt against Holy Cross came too late to prevent a 26 to defeat, Coach Lloyd Jordan termed the varsity's performance in the late stages of the game very significant...
There was only one worm in the golden apple. Because the wage boosts would bring certain price increases, the cost of living would spurt upwards again and so would the cost of U.S. defense and the taxes...