Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alternative of Woodrow Wilson Lodge, termed by President Robert F. Goheen an "important and promising" development, has been in existence little more than two years. In that time it has grown--with its sudden spurt this winter--to equal most of the clubs, and promises to become still larger. There are more than fifty sophomores in the Lodge now--a number greater than sophomore "sections" of all but one club; most of these fifty joined before Bicker started, not, according to Dean Lippincott, out of fear of Bicker, but purely by choice and from a feeling that the alternative...
...reason for the spurt was Northwest's 15% jump in domestic passenger mileage, second highest increase in the industry (after Northeast, which rose 65% on the wings of its new Miami routes). Nyrop did it by selling off eight of the aged, unpressurized DC-3s in Northwest's fleet, bringing in 24 DC-6Bs and DC-7Cs in the past two years...
...varsity picked up its only win the next night downing American International College, 68 to 61. The see-saw first half closed with the varsity trailing by two, but a second half spurt put the team ahead to stay. Wilson praised Bob Bowditch's work off both backboards, saying that the sophomore forward turned in his best effort of the year...
What Captain Cutter probably objects to most of all is the recent spurt of "alumni recruiting" in the Ivy League, a facet of alumni activity which, by virtue of its unfortunate label, suggests an attempt to hustle unsuspecting lummocks into football uniforms before they or their parents realize what has happened...
Despite the lack of competition from B.U., two of the middle distance races produced exciting stretch battles, as Dyke Benjamin barely managed to hold on to defeat teammate Jed Fitzgerald in the mile and Art Cahn needed a finishing spurt to fight off Gus Schumacher...