Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necessary steps for the preliminary work have already been taken in connection with the preparations for the 1940 Games, so that the Organization Committee has a good start for the 1952 Games. The Helsinki Stadium, together with special stadia for swimming contests, rowing, horseback-riding, wrestling, etc., are already built . . . The Helsinki main Stadium has accommodations for more than 80,000 persons...
...Pendergast machine of Kansas City, which gave Harry Truman his start in politics, all but fell apart last week, just as its most famous offspring reached his greatest glory. When fat old Tom Pendergast died in 1945, after a short stretch in Leavenworth for income-tax evasion, his nephew and image, Jim Pendergast, took over the creaky remnants of the machine. But Jim just didn't have the touch...
...team was without the services of its captain Don Forte for all but four games. Right and Ferto, whose one-handed pass catch had clinched the 1941 Yale game, chipped his ankle in a pre-season scrimmage and did not play a minute of football until the start of November...
...Harvard applicants who sought two tickets will got them. All who sought four tickets will also get at least two. Then, when all applications for two tickets have been met under the priority system, the HAA will start alloting the extra pairs to those who applied for them...
Ever since the season's start, the Jayvees have been plagued by defects in their attack. Either it was fumbles, or pass interceptions, or poor timing. McCabe's task of ironing out difficulties has been made no easier by the guinea pig function of the Jayvees. Most of J.V. practice time is spent impersonating the varsity opponent of the following week...