Word: spurts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Don Donahue was the outstanding Harvard performer, winning both high and low hurdles and garnering 10 points all by himself. Donald Main, who won the mile run by a fifty year margin, and whose spurt won the two-mile relay, starred for Yale...
Business, it was said, was quite up to the level of other years, and had not suffered because of the war. Tradespeople looked for a last minute spurt today. The telegraph office particularly, recalling that last year it had delivered an ice cream soda with four straws, a dog in a red ribbon, two fried eggs, and white mice, looked forward to a busy...
From all indications, the Russian drive is progressing steadily, but it is far from the "rout" that has been filling the dispatches. It has yet to show a spurt at all comparable with the blitzkriegs that so recently went in the other direction. Sometimes the gains hailed by the press as fantastic have been so slight in terms of space as not to show at all on a good sized map. Some gains seem to occur more than once, such as the capture of Kozelsk, which has been announced and cheered twice recently, with two weeks intervening. Reports like these...
...London a grave disservice with such misrepresentation of facts. . . . You suggest that Londoners are living on the last spurt of energy which so often galvanizes a dying man. This is untrue and unworthy of TIME...
...expect, for geography canalizes desert warfare. Some of the enemy's drives were already either under way or poised to strike. Month ago Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, Italy's expert in African warfare, led the spearhead of a drive from Libya into Egypt. After his first crushing spurt, he had pegged in at Sidi Barrani (see map), and his forces had been consolidating themselves there ever since. The British were 80 miles east at Mersa Matruh, the outpost to which they had decided to retire, with tip & run tactics, whenever the drive from Libya materialized. To south and east...