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...week long classes are held; then the teacher hands out enough homework to keep pupils busy for four or five weeks. The school car is hooked on to another train, rolls on to the next spur, stays a week, moves...
...every Calypso "war" since 1920. The Calypso Carnival held on the two days before Ash Wednesday is now a major tourist attraction in Port-of-Spain, with each of the rival kings setting up headquarters in bamboo tents, and challenging each other to sing-downs composed on the spur of the moment...
Possible use of the spur track into the former Levell Hospital area was declared expensive and inefficient...
...months ago, when the unions had first made their wage demands, they would probably have accepted. But not now, with the 15? boost for West Coast lumbermen as a spur. Snapped union strike director Charles Millard: "[The seizure] contains the fascist principle of forced labor...
After World War II a joint Anglo-American inquiry committee recommended that 100,000 more Jews be admitted into Palestine in 1946. Zionists took to organized violence to spur British action. The British answered by trying to suppress the Jewish underground...