Word: start
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...News happens when it happens and don't start becoming news any sooner than it does happen, and therefore to try to make your subscribers' eyes stick out by telling them that because you appear hereafter on Thursday instead of on Friday they are getting the news one day faster is like telling a boy that he is getting more than 24 hours in the day if he arises at 6 a. m. instead...
...last 50 years such a Mittelland waterway has been dreamed of by pan-Germans, opposed by jealous pre-War German States. But last week when the last ditch, connecting Brunswick and Magdeburg, was officially opened up, no German raised his voice against it. Fear that Ruhr coal might start moving into markets supplied by Upper Silesia was quelled by a pfennig-per-ton-per-kilometer extra canal fee between Magdeburg and Hanover...
...Most addicts start using drugs in their late twenties, but addiction may occur at any age. Physicians frankly admit they are stumped by the cause of addiction, generally attribute it to a desire for excitement. Relatively few persons have become addicted through use of medicines for relief of pain...
...year ago no two horse-racing enthusiasts could agree whether War Admiral or Seabiscuit was the No. 1 thoroughbred of 1937. Temperamental War Admiral, undefeated in eight starts (including the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes), was champion of the three-year-olds and the darling of the tracks because of his spectacular habit of getting in front at the start and staying there. Even-tempered, hardy Seabiscuit, a year older and graduated from the three-year-old class into the more difficult handicap class, was champion of his division (eleven victories in 15 starts), was the No. 1 money...
Meanwhile, the three-cornered fullback fight between Ben Smith, Mike Cohen, and Joe Gardella went on during yesterday's practice. Although Smith was listed to start Saturday's game against Virginia, Joe Gardella held down the "A" team spinning position yesterday. Smith and Cohen alternated...