Word: start
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Columbia has been coming fast at the end of the schedule, and the 50 to 45 win which Captain Tom Macioce's boys registered over the Big Green last night was no fluke. They were touted as title contenders at the start of the season, and their strong finish has justified this prediction...
Actual plans for practice include thorough drill on fundamentals and the weekly showing of moving pictures. Plays, faking, and blocking will be particularly emphasized in the practice that will start in the cage and move out as soon as the weather permits...
...place to get your permanent start in tennis is in college,' emphatically declared Fred Perry, suave British racquet star yesterday. "Get out and practice, know your fundamentals, and work on your weak shots. When you are practicing, forget about winning a match, and concentrate on your stroking...
...these rallies, called recently in New York, Dean Gauss of Princeton admitted that the Society had, it was true, taken rather poor care of civilization, but announced that he, personally, was fully ready to start work in earnest, and hoped others would follow. "Science, humanity have already suffered too much through suppression of freedom of inquiry to make any policy of appeasement possible. . . . On that issue we hereby declare war," he said. But although Phi Beta Kappa men thrilled to the campaign title, "To the Defense," they found it hard to know just where to start in on the business...
...Children's Crusade might be the subject for a fine work of imaginative realism. Our Lives Have Just Begun attempts instead a piece of reverent irony-the story of a French shepherd boy who, mistaking a joking troubadour for God, is inspired to start the first Children's Crusade to Jerusalem. He recruits tens of thousands of moppets, sweeps across France like a locust plague, accepts slave-traders' transportation to the Holy Land as a miracle, dies of fever as the flabbergasted Caliph of Bagdad good-humoredly pretends to surrender in the name of the Virgin Mary...