Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prominent businessmen will aid the Business School in selecting men to receive financial aid under a new plan to start in the fall term, Dean David announced yesterday. A maximum of 55 students will divide up the $50,000 stipend...
Bolles puts no stock in this philosophy. His crews do not start serious training until the spring term, and such relative periods of ease as displayed these last two weeks show what might be considered an off-hand approach to the whole sport...
Wile Hollywood continues to sweat out a sag in movie attendance, Harvard's Ivy Films Productions seems likely to wipe off tripods, wind up the cameras, and blandly start production this summer on its second film...
...could be salvaged in the end. Besides, M-G-M still had an even jumpier headache: Judy Garland had flounced off the Annie Get Your Gun lot, and the company had decided to scrap much of some $1,000,000 worth of film and wait until late summer to start the picture all over again with Betty Hutton...
Nevada, a half-century ago. From the start, in the isolated Bridges ranch house on the morning of the year's first snowstorm, the reader is plunged into an atmosphere of family hatreds and tensions that recalls Playwright Eugene O'Neill at his grimmest. Whisky-soaked father Bridges hates his domineering, straitlaced, Bible-reading wife ("A clothespin in bed . . . Gotta keep drinkin' just to forget the 'normous wooden clothes-pin"). Mother Bridges, on her side, despises Bridges for his worthlessness, his decayed delusions of get-rich-quick grandeur...