Word: springing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Competitions are being held for all boards; news, business, and photographic open to Freshmen, and editorial open to Sophomores. They will last for six weeks, ending immediately before the spring vacation...
...fellowship of $2,000 will be awarded this spring by the Fogg Museum for study in America or abroad in the field of modern art, the University announced today...
...Crimson sweepswingers are far behind the race for spring training, because the West coast crews have been in their shells for a month already. However, Harvard material is strong and plentiful, and beyond the immediate problem of selection from this material, there is the acute problem of selecting a stroke. The same problem was crucial early last season, but it was readily solved by the time the races started...
...Last spring many an American Airlines pilot, stopping for passengers at Buffalo, N. Y., sunburned the roof of his mouth watching the test flights of a new pursuit ship that the U. S. Army Air Corps called XP-39. Slim as a lance, it ripped across the field faster than anything they had ever seen, faded to a dot against the sky before the thunder of its exhaust had echoed off the hangar walls. And when it came home to roost, at the hangar of Bell Aircraft Corp., it waddled up to the apron on three wheels with its tail...
...industry by adding a side line of Mitchell, Case and Flanders automobiles to the stock of his general store at Troy, Idaho. They sold so well that he got rid of everything but the side line, moved to Spokane and became a distributor for Velie, Oldsmobile, Willys-Overland. Last spring he sold his Hudson agency for the Northwest for "about a half-million - that is the closest I can seem to remember." Taking on Graham-Paige's Pacific Coast agency, he staggered President Joseph Bolden Graham by selling 600 cars (10% of Graham's 1939 output...