Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When government attorneys last week heard a bewhiskered conservative, Justice George Sutherland, begin to read the majority opinion in the Alabama case, they shuddered. As he continued to read what turned out to be not a majority but a unanimous decision, they could scarcely believe their ears, for it completely upset the companies' contentions...
Five Harvard men, selected last week as Rhodes scholars, will cross the Atlantic next fall to begin two or three years of study at England's Oxford University...
...south, where the clippers are prepared for the 1,798-mile jump into Auckland. Last week, flying his 19-ton. Sikorsky Samoan Clipper a steady 135 m.p.h., P. A. A.'s taciturn, 43-year-old veteran Captain Edwin C. Musick uneventfully traversed this route. This week he will begin scheduled fortnightly service (mail & express only) between New Zealand and Hawaii just in time to save the franchise. Airmail time between the U. S. and the Antipodes will be four days. Steamships take 18. In six months Imperial Airways will fly 1,280 miles across the Tasman Sea between Australia...
...Commission. Most publicized came from the Association of American Railroads which last week asked that the new price schedules be delayed for further study because they mean a $20,000,000 added annual burden to the greatly depressed U. S. railroads. B. C. C. refused. In case coal prices begin to get out of hand in the other direction, B. C. C. has power to establish maximum price levels...
...Amati, whose father and grandfather before him had made fine violins. For some 20 years after he left the workshop, Stradivari continued to imitate Amati's small, yellow-varnished models, then began to experiment with a style of his own. At the age of 56, when most men begin to take things easier, Stradivari painstakingly evolved an entirely new model, broader and darker in color than the Amati. All his life he had been a feverish but carefully slow worker; his later years showed no letdown. Though some of his last fiddles bear the marks...