Word: outset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side it may be argued that the giving of course credit would not necessarily increase participation. Moreover, an experimental course faces the real danger of becoming a notorious snap, particularly if formal check-ups are minimized. And the very incorporation into the curriculum might at the outset kill any experimentation with the slow poison of required reading lists and hour exams...
Before vacation, two positions, stroke and five, were worrying Coach Tom Bolles. At the stroke oar there were four possibilities, Bill Rowe, Jack Wilson, Colton Wagner, and Barr Comstock. From the outset it has seemed that Bill Rowe was the favorite. Last year he stroked the Jayvee shell. Bolles rates all four men as good strokes, but naturally not up to the standard set by Spike Chase last year...
First before a House committee, then before Senators, Mr. Morgenthau was on the defensive from the outset. The reason for renewing both the President's power of dollar devaluation and the life of the Stabilization Fund is to protect U. S. business if European currencies go to pot, but Mr. Morgenthau had solemnly to assure the House that the Administration had, at this time, no idea of further devaluation; that the Fund had not and never would be used to finance foreign purchases of arms...
...outset of the game, Mechem, St. Paul's right wing, scored unassisted in 45 seconds. Al Chandler, Freshman left defense, drove the puck into the net in 1:35. Penetrating deep into enemy territory, center Walt Whittacker scored at 2:30 assisted by wings Dreher and Ayres. With St. Paul's tallying up two more goals, the score at the end of the first period...
Cutler apparently saved himself somewhat in the 220 because from the outset in the 440 it was obvious that he was not going to let the lack of competition stop him from cracking five minutes. He maintained a blistering pace and almost lapped the field in the quarter-mile grind. His winning time was 4:59.5, a mark which has not yet been beaten by any of the country's other top collegiate 440 men this year...