Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some areas," said Barber Bert Oakley, "my new shop would scare the trade away." But not in fashionable Westwood, a Cadillac's spurt away from Hollywood. With searchlights, clouds of soap bubbles, and a few cinemactor customers (Allan Jones and Pat O'Brien) to give it atmosphere, the grand opening of "the world's swankiest tonsorial parlor" last week drew thousands of spectators...
...ports Jim never heard of often write to ask him how it's coming on. Every year Britain's newspaper boys come over to get a birthday-celebration spread in the Sunday features. The publicity Jim got at the eighth birthday party gave his business such a spurt that Downey's is closed two days a week now for lack of stock. "Sure the extra rest will do the boys no harm," Jim said last week, but he won't settle the strike. "If I can," he insists, "I'll will it to my successors...
Holidays for Shut-Ins. The House seemed as muscle-bound as the Senate. In its major spurt of activity it passed and sent to the Senate a bill to continue sugar controls until next November. Then it slumped back to await consideration of the long overdue tax bill, modified in committee by the G.O.P. leadership. The 20% across-the-board reduction was flattened out; the proposed cuts now range from 30% for net incomes less than $1,000 to 10½% for those over...
...contest was close for the first ten minutes, when the Crimson overcame a 21 to 20 deficit to move into a lead it never relinquished. Hauptfuhrer scored ten points in the second period on a variety of shots to spark the Varsity spurt, and Coach Bill Barclay's squad left the floor at the end of a high-scoring first half with a 38 to 30 lead...
...range on overhead set shots, and Mariaschin not only dropped two amazing hook shots from the right hand corner, but retrieved almost every rebound from the Lion's backboard. Batting furiously, the Crimson captain and the Varsity center accounted for all but four of the team's 21 point spurt in the last 10 minutes of the first half, which ended with Harvard in front...