Word: spring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because its majority is divided and because he had no new idea to spring, Franklin Roosevelt signalized this session of Congress by not demanding of it some major program to improve society. His "appeasement" of Business for recovery, now a bad joke, was to have been an executive job done by Harry Hopkins, whose performance was crippled by intestinal flu. In fighting with Congress for larger Relief appropriations than it was willing to give, the President has slowed up other legislation. And though the President's critics are doubtless unjust when they say that he has been plugging foreign...
Last year, as a two-year-old, Johnstown won only seven of twelve races. Because Johnstown ate too fast and often made himself ill, his trainer invented a sievelike device to feed him oats slowly. Johnstown swiftly improved. This spring, in three starts, no rival could get within six lengths of his heels at the finish line. Last week, Owner Woodward saw Johnstown join one of the Derby's smallest fields as one of the shortest favorites in the history of the race...
...those 14 years, earnest, honest Lou Gehrig, the sort of player managers dream about, made a fetish of his endurance record. Eclipsed by his colorful, temperamental teammate Babe Ruth, plodding Lou Gehrig felt that his drawing power was his dependability rather than his brilliance. When, at spring training camp this year, the Iron Horse suddenly realized that he was getting rusty, panic overtook him. He brooded, became tense at bat. Sportswriters, viewing his feeble performance, wrote his batting obituary-for all the world to read - before the season started...
...favored Elis 5 to 4 at New Haven Saturday morning. That seems to be the favorite score for Coach Hodder's men, because in the afternoon they bowed 5 to 4 to Williams at New Haven. It was the fourth 5 to 4 setback for the Hoddermen this spring...
...Clay took top pitching and batting honors with his ninth scalp this spring and a double and a triple out of four trips to the plate. Clay also fanned nine Blue batters and passed only one in his triumph...