Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long will it be remembered in Wall Street that last week's unparalleled bull spurt came immediately after a dull bear market, precipitated by a sudden break (TIME, Feb. 27). Equally long will market historians discuss the reason for last week's phenomenal spurt. The principal reason was the unexpected action of the officers and directors of the General Motors Corporation in purchasing 200,000 shares of their own stock in the open market for their own account...
...yard lead to W.C. Peet '28. V.L. Hennessey '80 was the Harvard anchor man facing Captain C.B. Meagher, who gave everything he had for the engineers, cutting down the lead steadily as the bell sounded for the final lap. Feeling his rival at his shoulder Hennessey gave one last spurt, and crossed the line, defeating Meagher by about 12 inches. The race was run in 3 minutes, 33 3-5 seconds...
...teams were equally matched, holding each other to a 0-0 score through two thirds of the game. Ten minutes after referee. Noonan had dropped the puck on the ice for the third period, the Harvard team began to show a concentrated attack on the schoolboy cage. In a spurt of team work, R. S. Ogden '31 flashed the puck to Watts, who lashed the dise into...
...Wesleyan five for the greater part of the first half, the University basketball team forged ahead to swamp the Middletown team 41 to 24, in a swift and hard fought game on the Hemenway court last night. A few minutes before the close of the first period a sudden spurt brought the University quintet into the lead, the half ending...
Italy-Dalmatia. Not only were Naples and Sicily snowmantled, not only did Vesuvius and Mount Etna spurt red ashes into a white storm; but the cold grew so intense in Dalmatia-across the Adriatic Sea from Italy-that the surface of a minor mountain range contracted, causing severe landslides near Spalato...