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...Forte, Columbia's sensational point scorer, now scholastically ineligible for the remainder of the season, Princeton stands as the favorite to capture the league title. It has won four games in the league, dropping two. Its over-all record is 8-8. The Crimson, after a very encouraging opening spurt, has a mediocre 6-10 record, 2-5 in the league...
...powered by a flat, easily hidden carbon-dioxide container linked by rubber tubes to a system of tiny valves. The valves can be opened or closed by the slightest movement of the muscles over which they are placed. The opening of each valve causes carbon dioxide to spurt from the container through a corresponding tube to tiny air bellows that move part of the limb. The carbon gases escape through a special exhaust...
...apart during takeoff. Flight mechanics were baffled until, in the engine wreckage, they found the charred carcass of a seagull. Sucked into the left air scoop as the fighter rose from the runway, the gull's body broke a fuel line, causing an excess amount of gasoline to spurt into the engine...
...sign of confidence was a sharp upward spurt in the free-market value of the wobbly peso. The U.S. joined the parade of nations officially recognizing the Lonardi regime as Argentina's new government...
...originated in salami-rich Hungary, means slicing away opposition gradually; and that absolutism (absoliutizm) in Russia ended, once and for all, with the overthrow of the Czarist regime. There are also such formidable coinages as shtur-movshtina, based on the German word Sturm, which means a last-minute production spurt in a factory to meet a quota. The volume shows that one word can have different meanings when used by Communists in Russia or in the West. According to a Hungarian female Communist, for instance, the informer (donoschik) is "the mightiest and most honorable discharger of responsibility." But in Western...