Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that when I start college in 1950 I shall have to specialize. I asked myself many times if I shouldn't just become a "Nature Boy" and study life, man, behavior patterns and such, but I can't feed or keep a family on culture...
...spite of the $99,331.38 discrepancy, the 1918 job is the same one the King of the Safecrackers is claiming credit for, the old boy may have to start shelling out some of his boasted 15,000,000 ill-gotten dollars for a good lawyer...
Pert, nut-brown Coaltown is the speed horse. He naturally bounces along at top speed unless he is restrained. Because of his terrific speed, cautious Ben Jones insists that Coaltown wear a quarter-inch pad of piano felt between hoof and shoe?just in case his feet start stinging. Coaltown, who has more crowd-appeal than Citation, at Florida's Hialeah Park last winter equaled the world record for a mile-and-an-eighth (1 :47 3/5). Then at Gulfstream Park, under a tight hold, he equaled the mile-and-a-quarter record...
Unlike most boys, Bill Deramus had a head start on his ambition to be a railroad engineer. His father was a division superintendent of the Kansas City Southern Railway Co., and frequently took Bill on rides. Bill never became an engineer, but last week he did even better. At 33, he became president of the Chicago Great Western Railway Co.-the youngest president of any Class I road...
This leaves Maureen free for rapture No. 2, a poor young lawyer (Dana Andrews without a beard) who is also a drunkard. Not to be caught napping a second time, Maureen sobers him up, supplies him with bed & board, and helps him to start a puppet theater in the mews. After a stretch of successful puppeteering, the couple's happiness is threatened by the return of Dana's wife from the U.S. But everything is straightened out in time for a jolly family reunion with Maureen's respectable parents down in Surrey...