Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rebel's End. Instead of going to college after high school, Frankie first had to go to work. He was a good salesman and in a year he made enough money selling children's swings, and later electric drills, to start himself out at the University of Washington. He had become a serious young man, a reader of H. L. Mencken's green-covered American Mercury-not a radical, merely an earnest explorer of panaceas for the common man. Then father's health began to fail...
...days. Said Sun-Times City Editor Karin Walsh: "If we don't hit it in one edition, we'll get it in the next." Even bulletins were made possible only by the Graphotype,*a machine perfected by the Trib (and copied by its rivals) since the start of the strike. Two weeks ago, when a disastrous midnight fire gutted a southern Illinois hospital, the Trib had a Graphotype bulletin in its One-Star Final in a scant 15 minutes...
...president of St. John's, stocky Stringfellow Barr had abolished electives, survey courses, standard texts, and books about books about books. By the time he left in 1947 (he tried and failed to start another St. John's in New England), his Great Books curriculum was the most talked-about experiment in U.S. education. Ever since, educators have been waiting to see just how Barr's St. Johnnies would do after graduation...
Basic Piano, instituted three years ago, pushed tutorial out of the field except for senior honors candidates. It is required for all men unless they can demonstrate sufficient keyboard technique at the start to satisfy Assistant Professor Fine, who is in charge of the program...
...Brager, Bill Spence, and Ned Maroni will start at defense. Dunk McCallum will try to keep stray balls out of the goal...