Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lingering hope of the dispirited defenders of Madrid was for an honorable, merciful peace. But from General Franco's headquarters in Burgos had come no promise of quarter, only a repeated demand for unconditional surrender-the white flag over Madrid. Then, last Tuesday morning, white flags began to flutter wanly over the ramparts of Madrid, the last symbol of Spanish resistance to the advance of Fascism...
...coming to light of this "living fossil" creates an evolutionary mystery. In logic its kind should have disappeared when the seas began to be thronged with more modern, more efficient rivals. A plausible theory is that the Coelacanths retreated to the deeps where competition was not severe, and persisted there as the archaic okapi survived in the dense Congo forests, as the primitive duck-billed platypus in benign Australia. If so, some whim or freak of circumstance brought this particular Coelacanth up from the deeps to the coastal water of South Africa. And the possibility remains that other "living fossils...
...Fronty-Fords on the dirt track circuit, decided three years ago that there was more money to be made in slower transportation. Racer Siegal sold his share in a Chicago Loop garage for $1,090 in 1936, hired three workmen, and in a corner of a West Side factory began making Moto-Skoots. By the end of the year he had sold 186 of them at $109 apiece and had taken over the whole factory. In 1937 the output was 2,700. This year, looking back on retail sales of more than $500,000 for 1938, Siegal...
Five years ago, perturbed because engineers could not get jobs when they got their degrees, Mr. Murphy began a study of U. S. universities to see what could be done about founding a school that would give young engineers a better chance to find work. He was helped by General Motors' Research Director Charles Kettering and University of Cincinnati's Dean Herman Schneider, originator of a "cooperative" plan of engineering study...
This week Manhattan's Downtown Gallery displayed Steig's latest humorous accomplishments: 14 small, irresistible figures carved in mahogany, walnut, orange, pear and apple wood. He began doing them three years ago when he married and moved out to live in the country in Sherman, Conn. He and his brother, Henry Anton Steig, pruned their fruit trees, stacked the dead wood in a shed. One day William picked up a chunk and whittled it. Thereafter all male carvings were known in the family as Jason, female carvings as Tessie...