Word: spurts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight-point spurt by Yale in the closing four minutes enabled the Elis to take a 76-70 victory over Harvard's varsity basketball team in a close Ivy League game last night...
Harvard, which is 3-1 after last week's 44-10 victory over U. Mass. and 1-0 in the Ivy League, will be counting on strong performances from juniors Bruce Goodman and Paul Catinella at 130 and 137 and sophomore Pat Coleman at 145 to contain the Columbia spurt in the early matches. Coleman, who wrestled at 152 against U. Mass., was moved down this week to strengthen the Crimson lightweight effort...
This syndrome only recently achieved the distinction of a medical name - deprivation dwarfism. To treat its victims doctors simply take them away from their homes - and it appears that even the institutional tenderness of a hospital can snap emotionally starved youngsters into a spurt of growth...
...digestive system less able to absorb food. Although doctors see a connection between a baby's mental state and growth, they cannot yet show how an emotional problem becomes a physical one. They do know that no matter how deprivation dwarfs thrive in a hospital, the spurt often ends when they return to the homes that started the trouble...
...like in increasing our earnings to match our recent sales growth." At G.E., the percentage of profits to sales ran 4.7% in 1966 and 1967, well down from 1959's recent record of 6.2%. Last year earnings would have been off even more except for a final-quarter spurt in overall sales, including those of TV sets, appliances and other consumer products, which account for some 25% of G.E.'s business...