Word: springing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody knew what Jim Farley thought of The Boss. But what Mr. Roosevelt thought of Big Jim all these years was clear to everybody but Jim. That began to clear up too one day last spring, when Big Jim. moving with the nervous alertness of a hurrying cat, strode into the White House to report to Mr. Roosevelt. Just back from a 13-State, 7,500-mile trip, surveying Democratic fences, Jim Farley had a lot to tell. One thing: nomination for Term III would be easy, election might be tough...
...wanes, the spots tend to crowd around the sun's equator, and Dr. Harlan True Stetson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's authority on "cosmic-terrestrial relations," believes that equatorial spots get a truer bead on earth than others. Finally, the earth last week had barely passed the spring equinox, at which time its axis is about perpendicular to the sun. Thus the bombardment was broadside to the earth's north-south magnetic field. Dr. Stetson believes this happenchance helped make things worse...
...weather was clear and the Congress track was fast on the afternoon when Gandhi's first spring put him out in front. He urged the Congress guiding committee to approve a resolution in favor of delaying civil disobedience while pressing for independence by negotiation. The committee obeyed. Saint Gandhi thanked them in a speech bristling with humility: "I am called Mahatma, but I am an ordinary man. I have blundered and committed mistakes. ... I am perhaps the poorest general any army ever had. My only wealth is your love. If you don't like me, remove...
Later this spring the Council committee will investigate and report on the courses now offered for distribution, which last year's Council report claimed are inadequate...
Sixteen members of Coach Floyd Stahl's varsity baseball team will leave Boston on Sunday for the annual spring trek through the South, opening the current playing season at Chapel Hill on Monday against the University of North Carolina, it was announced today...