Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This spurt was all that kept the Blue alive early in the ball game, and three successive baskets by Gibbon enabled Red Rolfe's crew to overtake a Crimson lead and go ahead 14 to 12 after 10 minutes. The boys matched baskets most of the remaining time, and Guy MacGauhey tallied three quick points near the end of the session to keep Yale ahead...
Last week a sudden spurt of activity in and near Spain focused the world's attention there. Most of the activity was political, but 400 German troop trains were reported to have moved recently toward France's Spanish border. Eleven divisions were said to be massed on the Mediterranean end of the frontier. Germany closed the border area as a military zone...
...Elis came within three points of the Brownmen after a few minutes of the last half, but a Crimson spurt, helped by Dean Hennessey, who had been inactive most of the first 20 minutes because he had three personal fouls on him, moved the Varsity to a safe lead which increased as the game drew to a close...
...theories most frequently aired about the Crimson basketball team were proved to perfection this weekend. That the Varsity five is strictly an up-and-down ball team was aptly shown in its amazing spurt to down Columbia 53 to 52, at the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday night; its absolute inability to win on the road was demonstrated beyond a doubt yesterday morning, when an inspired Army quintet gave the quintet a 72 to 40 going-over...
Smoke & Flame. Near Aberdeen, at the Chemical Warfare Service's Edgewood Arsenal, the correspondents saw some of the Army's devious ways of killing by nonexplosive methods. >Old-type flame throwers sprayed liquid fuel (from canisters strapped to the gunner's back) in a diffused spurt which left the target burning briefly. The Army's new flame thrower squirts a thin stream of an improved fuel, with greater accuracy, over a greater distance, leaves its target burning longer...