Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strategically, the booming Norman Wells development on the banks of the Mackenzie is of highest importance. The field is fortunately placed on the global maps. From North America to Asia, air routes over Alaska and the Aleutians are considerably shorter than the transpacific route via Hawaii. Gas within pipe-spurt of the northern take-off fields, aviation gas which need not be trucked or flown in, is vital in the Army's aeropolitics...
...Travel advertising took a sudden, self-conscious spurt, but had a frustrated tone. Lake George, N.Y. beckoned soothingly: "Everything within easy walking distance . . . you don't need a car." Sea Island, Ga. boasted: "No rationing of cool sea breezes." The Denver Convention & Visitors' Bureau: ". . . Thousands of young Americans training in and near Denver say they're coming back, when their job is done. . . ." "If," said the Mexican Tourist Association, "you plan to visit your boy in camp in the Southwest. . . ." La Province de Québec described its humming war plants, its R.C.A.F. training fields, shrugged: "Your...
...parochial shrewdness that refuses medical aid to the victims of a flood in a neighboring valley until such time as the medical history of each victim and his ability to pay has been thoroughly canvassed. It was precisely such a policy following Versailles that let the German mark spurt like a severed artery untied and bled white the currencies of most of the other European belligerents...
...last hapless spurt for the Straus Trophy, Kirkland led the other House crews on the river Friday and took the House baseball championship on Soldiers Field. A double-header split with Dudley gave the Deacons the baseball laurels...
Trying to finish up the season with a final spurt for the Red Cross Blood Bank College representatives issued a special plea yesterday to encourage students to make donations before examination period begins. Time has been reserved, on Friday especially, for those who wish to donate this week...