Word: burstingly
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...their cheering has been thoroughly unsatisfactory, the Council evidently believes that they can be made to bellow hoarsely and continuously by the trained antics of competitively selected cheer leaders. Instead of men who have won records of achievement on a half-dozen teams leading their classmates in a spontaneous burst of approval, the new plan provides for a quintet of expert dancers directing a trained chorus of "Rah-Rah-Boys". At least such is the ideal toward which the new plan tends...
...barely nosed out by the well-timed sprint of Hazzard, the Andover distance man. W. P. Pratt '28 and E. P. Renouf '28 starred for the Crimson in the field events by winning the shot-put and the high jump respectively. Thanks to O'Neil's remarkable burst of speed in the last lap, the Harvard first year men won the relay by an eight-yard margin...
...lives and breathes only for syncopation marries into a dry-goods family with emporiums the country over. For four years he is bound by the chain store shackle. The family still regard him as a cheap actor, a low comedian, a gutter snipe. He makes the obvious burst and, as the final curtain falls, is headed for Broadway and a career of sound public service as a song-and-dance...
...June afternoon in Tennessee, a man was talking Smoothly the ribbon of his voice unrolled, with here and there a knot. When, these knots came, his hearers stirred and looked at each other; sometimes they burst out clapping, some times they merely nodded their heads. They were alumni of Fisk University, Negro college of Nashville, Tennessee. He who addressed them was Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, Fisk graduate. He had taken this opportunity (it was Commencement Day, 1924) to bring certain painful things to their attention, he said...
...alleged that M. Daeschner bowed, pressed a packet of papers into the President's hands and burst forth into felicitous words, as follows...