Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conceding that Britain's July-August losses were "relatively low," Germans talked knowingly of a sudden upward spurt, boasted of a vastly augmented submarine fleet, "new weapons" and improved tactical methods, new fully trained submarine crews. They promised additional and expanded U-boat wolf packs, and pointed out that long winter nights are a prime U-boat advantage, since subs usually remain submerged during the day, fight from the surface at night...
Appointment for Love (Universal). Dr. Jane Alexander (Margaret Sullavan) is an enterprising medico who can reduce most of life's foibles and pleasures to dank laboratory formulas. To her, love is a chemical attraction; jealousy a spurt of adrenalin, etc. She works most of the time...
...democratization of Britain took another spurt last week and the already wobbling prestige of The Old School Tie took another blow...
...defense is seriously impaired ... I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, pursuant to the powers vested in me . . . direct that the Secretary of War immediately take possession." This week, on the morning set for reopening, as tear-gas bombs began to lob through jampacked streets around the plants and violence began to spurt, soldiers with fixed bayonets marched into Inglewood...
Unless the Crimson suddenly snap out of it, and start a real hitting spurt, things look bad for the crucial Yale games, for they will have to face two of the best hurlers in the East in Ted Harrison and Captain "Smoky Joe" Wood. However, they have shown that it is possible, notably in the Columbia game, and the first tilt with Princeton, when, among a number of singles, they exploded with three triples, two doubles, and a home...