Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because ten-year-old Willie Sprague quarantined and the only magazine mother would let him read was the Yot Companion, which Willie considered "namby-pamby." Willie's devoted uncle, childless Griffith Ogden Ellis, thought up the more virile American Boy and began editing it in Detroit in 1899. Editor Ellis printed red-blooded features and fiction,* kept editing his magazine for a schoolboy Willie while Willie grew to manhood. The War killed Willie Sprague...
Passengers with hangovers became clear headed when they began breathing a mix ture of 20% oxygen, 80% nitrogen. Others became violently airsick when they took off their masks, quickly recovered when they put them on again. All showed normal pulse and respiration rates, were able to eat comfortably without taking off the masks...
Before the plane began descending at 1,000 feet per minute (normal airline descent rate 300 f.p.m.), the passengers' masks were piped to a mixture of 20% oxygen, 80% helium and they experienced no ear pains. Passengers were told that ear plugging was due to failure of the ears to equalize inner and outer pressure in descent, that highly diffusible helium spreads more swiftly than air through the passages from nose to ears, keeps pressure reasonably even...
Then things began to happen. Word soon spread around that the show at the Great Northern Theatre was worth the price of admission (55? top). Chicago's best critics ventured inside, came out beaming. Music lovers began to go, found that Chicago's most energetic baton-waving and most stimulating symphonic programs were being dished out by, its WPAsters...
While the WPAsters still worked on at their regular $94-a-month salary, the Illinois Symphony actually began to pile up a profit at the box office. The size of this profit put it in a different class from most other WPA orchestras, enabled it to pay the high performance royalties asked by such ace contemporary composers as Dmitri Shostakovich, Serge Prokofieff, Paul Hindemith, Jean Sibelius...