Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week long, stock exchange traders watched the ticker for some sign that the previous weekend's sudden spurt in both prices and volume of trading (TIME, March 29) indicated the long-awaited break in the 22-month-old bear market...
...Roman churches, amid a fateful battle to save Italy from Communism (see FOREIGN NEWS), priests substituted olive branches for the usual palm branches, to express their hope that peace would prevail. In Jerusalem, the tradition?.! procession from Bethany to Jerusalem's gate was canceled, because of the new spurt of fighting in the Holy Land...
...Symptoms. Dr. Halliday, onetime general practitioner and now a member of Scotland's Department of Health, finds many signs that society is coming apart at the mental seams. Except for a wartime spurt, the birthrate is declining, owing not to poor health but to the neurotic anxieties of parents. While the birthrate goes down, psychosomatic complaints such as peptic (stomach) ulcers...
...most useful activity possible for men and nations in 1948 was the prevention of World War III. Last week the rate of that activity took a spurt. If it could be increased about ten times and maintained at that higher level for about 15 years, the chances of avoiding World War III would be good...
...most widely held theory, to explain this year's spurt, is a search for outdoor sport to break the winter grind with the books. "Studies are cramping," says Grace Tuttle '49. "Even on a nearby ski slope, college seems miles away." There's nothing like it to restore tired tissues after a round of examinations, says Betty Crowley '49. And Georgette Haigh '49 thinks that skiing provides the balance between study and recreation that is demanded by the new type of college girl...