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Word: springing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arrived for his spring vacation in Warm Springs, Ga., whence he departed a year ago, prophesying: "I'll be back in the fall if we don't have a war." With World War II here, a train was held ever ready for the 721-mile run to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The President's Week | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...been confirmed that a small canal extending from the Charles to Wellesley's Lake Waban is navigable for small craft, thus eliminating the necessity for a final portage. The fact that Spring rains have swollen the river should make other shallow sections more amenable to navigation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Wellesley Flotilla Enlarged by Eager Paddlers | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

Bert Haines' second Varsity 150 pound crew will leave the starting line in front of the Tech boathouse at 2:30 o'clock, to race against M.I.T. only. Homans' crews has been staying close to Vint Bailey's powerful first 150's all spring, and the race should cause no trouble for Harvard...

Author: By Paul C. Sheeline, | Title: Five Crimson Eights to Face Syracuse, M.I.T. and B.U. in Rowe Cup Regatta | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

...their first victory since the spring trip and their first win in this season's Eastern Intercollegiate League competition, the Stahl-coached Crimson nine entrained yesterday for Princeton, where they tangle with the Bengals this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAHLMEN AIM FOR WIN OVER PRINCETON NINE | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

Those who have read Howard Spring's novel of the same name in 1938 no doubt will feel, after seeing this picture, that it has failed to recapture the strength of the book. For Madeleine Carroll and Brian Aherne hardly go below the surface to create characters who could be the object or the source of any emotion. They pass ineffectively through the story of a novelist. Aherne, finding himself and his worthless son, Louis Hayward, in love with the same painter, Carroll. That the picture suffers from the elimination of certain scenes of the book that might remove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

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