Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mauro Inguanez, Abbey librarian and archivist, visited the U.S. to start a fund-raising organization. He fell ill and his plans have not yet been carried out. *By the Lombards in 580; by the Saracens in 884; by earthquake in 1349; and by the French...
Trying to regain the Gold Cup he won in 1946, Bandleader-Motorboater Guy Lombardo wound up in the choppy Detroit River just after the start of the first heat. He swung sharply to avoid a rival, flipped over, sailed 15 feet through the air, escaped with a broken arm and bruises. His $100,000 speedboat, Tempo VI, was almost a total loss; experts thought they might be able to salvage the engine...
Grandma Moses was getting ready for her 88th birthday and for her tenth anniversary as a professional artist. In those ten years she had painted some 1,300 pictures, which now sell for as much as $3,000 apiece. "Let's see," she said last week, "I can start a batch of five on a Monday and have them finished off on a Saturday. It's according to how I feel, and my callers...
...work, a dry, detailed classification, is not only ponderous but important. Said one expert: "This work doesn't tell you everything about rodents, but no zoologist could start work on rodents without reference...
...slot under the items they wish to buy. Electric impulses cause perforations to be cut in ticker tape attached to the face of the keys. The customers take the tape to the cashier, who inserts it in a translator machine. That sets off more electric impulses which not only start the goods sliding down a conveyor belt, but at the same time add up the bill...