Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having reached their heights in the Ordovician, the Trilobites began to waste their substance in riotous living. Before the close of the Permian, the last Trilobite had been banished from the face of the earth. The Trilobites probably arose from segmented worms in the Pre-Cambrian...
...contact" on a lonely road. He handed a shoe box containing $10,000 worth of marked $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills to a man with a flashlight. The man promised "Skeegie" would be returned promptly. As that day and the next passed, the Princeton crowds grew ugly. They began going out in posses to beat the tangled Florida bushland, to comb coastal bayous, jungled keys...
Governor Benson soon crowed that this was a victory for progressives. But Mr. Christgau, who was in Redwood Falls to dedicate a new WPA-built community house at the Birch Coulee Dakota Indian agency and to receive a tribal distinction as Chief Standing Bear, last week began to broadcast a different account by telephone and telegraph. He announced that the real reason for the ouster was not his "meddling in politics," as Governor Benson and Senator Ernest Lundeen had charged, but his refusal to be "kicked upstairs" to a job in Washington, which Administrator Hopkins had offered him fortnight before...
...Sheik, which grossed $2,500,000 after his death. Last year, Producer Joe Schenck's Art Cinema Corporation, which made the picture, sold the negative, along with some 30 other old cinema scraps, to an alert entrepreneur named Emil Jensen. Wary Mr. Jensen began operations by trying out The Son of the Sheik in Washington. When it broke all house records, he decided to invest a little money in reconditioning. With a musical score and a few elementary sound effects, the picture opened in Boston three weeks ago. By last week, it was apparent even to Mr. Jensen that...
...gallery of 12,000 gathered in the rain outside the old grey clubhouse, shouted for Charley Yates, "the wee Yankee," who had captured their fancy with his drolleries during his visit in Scotland. "Let's all sing a little song," drawled Yankee Yates of Atlanta, Ga., and he began to warble a Scottish air. Everybody laughed, everybody sang, and skirling bagpipes resounded over the Scottish dunes, out into St. Andrew...