Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patterson's dismay in 1937 Pan American ordered Boeing 307s just under the weight limit. Later American and T.W.A. began flirting with heavy planes...
Intelligence. Three days after her operation, little Alice was sucking lustily at her bottle. Her fontanel began to sink. Last week, when Dr. Scarff gave Alice a checkup, he found that her head had decreased a quarter of an inch in circumference, while her body had nearly doubled in size. She gurgled, tried to sit up alone and reach for his finger. "We're simply crazy about her now," cried beaming Mr. Jackson...
...Linnea Fransson of East Orange, N. J. was told by the doctor to eat what she liked. What she liked was candy, lemonade, ginger ale. She ate nothing else. She left business school, retreated to her home, sucked lollipops to her heart's content. When she began suffering from starvation, doctors at Orange Memorial Hospital tried in vain to give Linnea tube feedings and intravenous injections. For a while they persuaded her to eat an apple a day, and half a teaspoonful of raw, grated vegetables. But anything besides her candystore diet made her sick at her stomach. After...
...drives madly, with band music going full blast on the radio of his car. He keeps time by jumping up and down in his seat and pounding on the knee of his companion. When he crashed into a police car in downtown Seattle, he jumped out and began dressing down the cops, threatening to have them fired. His face was cut and he had a broken collarbone, and all the time he was taking pictures...
...away in Washington, D. C. When Mary Ellen Appleby, daughter of Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture Paul H. Appleby, was a little girl, she was terrified of every kind of insect ("I'd run a mile from a daddy long-legs") except fireflies, which she loved. She began to read up on fireflies, learned a lot of things about them-for example, that what makes them flash is a luminous substance called luciferin secreted in their abdomens, that most entomologists believe the flash is a mating call. Mary Ellen does not plan to be an entomologist, however...