Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sinek is confident that the demand for block ice will not plummet in the face of a postwar spurt in mechanical refrigerator competition. He believes there is room for both. He points to the fact that 43% of his business is helping to supply ice to the 140,000 U.S. refrigerator cars (now carrying more than 1,000,000 carloads of foodstuffs a year) in which, he says, mechanical refrigeration is unsatisfactory. Another 40% of his business comes from commercial users of block ice (hotels, restaurants, stores); from maintenance of cold storage, air-conditioning systems, railroad passenger-car cooling, water...
...second half saw Dunster put on a scoring spurt which carried them 11 points ahead of the sailors. Led by Tom Keene '45, Saul Sherman '47, and Harry Phillips '46, the Funsters hammered away all period at the failing defenses...
...this point the Coast Guard checked the spurt by stealing the ball from Harvard twice in a row to score two baskets, while Moley scored the only Crimson basket before time...
...Stahlmen started off the second half with a spurt. Paced by Dean Hennessy, they managed to narrow the gap to about ten points. The spurt was short-lived unfortunately and the Coast Guard boys had little trouble the rest of the period. The final quarter went much the same way, and, as mentioned before, the final count...
...century, laughed off the stage in a premature Presidential try in 1940, has shown his ability to grow and thus to come back. He is compiling an unassailable record as Governor of the nation's No. 1 political state. In Gallup polls-despite Wendell Willkie's recent spurt (see p. 14)-he leads all other Republicans as he has for many months...