Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swam the Strait of Gibraltar," said Miss Mercedes Gleitz, London stenographer. She added that it took her twelve hours and three-quarters to get across. "What proof have you got, Miss Gleitz?" The swimmer showed a deposition signed by 60 Moroccans who said they saw her land or start or who went with her in little boats. Miss Gleitz said she knew one Englishman had seen her do it. He was a young boy. She described him, but he couldn't be found. Last year Miss Gleitz said she had swum the English Channel but refused...
...Eyre reached for his map, missed it; it slipped into a corner of his cockpit. Two thousand feet over Essex, England, he undid his safety straps and reached again. Unintentionally he pressed the control stick forward. The plane stalled with a start and an astonished flier found himself catapulted into midair. With presence of mind he pulled his parachute cord, landed unhurt, lighted a cigaret, and addressed a gaping rustic: "I wonder where my kite's gone...
...Campus of Ohio Wesleyan University, all Delaware was massed in the seats. Marching clubs were milling about. The "President-making" Republican Glee Club of Columbus sang the late Mrs. Harding's favorite song, "The End of a Perfect Day." Senator Willis, feeling though not recognizing the start of a cerebral hemorrhage, muttered to his wife that he needed air. He walked across the platform, staggered through the door, fell into the arms of his secretary, Charles A. Jones...
...until 1916 did he start branching out from production into Oil's subtler phases-transportation, refining, marketing. He formed the Sinclair Oil & Refining Co. out of seven small enterprises and built his own pipe-line to the Great Lakes. In 1917 he formed the Sinclair Gulf Corp. with his own fleet of ships. While larger companies were getting War contracts, he, an alert independent, developed a Latin-American trade. In 1919 he let his friends in on various "ground floors" of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., a towering organization of world-wide schemes...
Writer Saleski defines "Jew" and "Jewish" at the start. He uses them not in "their religious or national sense. The method of approach is purely a racial one. He has isolated all these musicians into this one volume for the simple reason that all of them have in their veins that fire to which the Jewish prophets gave utterance in the time of Jerusalem's glory. . . . He is not concerned with their religion, past or present, but solely with their racial roots, as in the case of the Damrosch family. . . ." He proceeds then with his catalog. Among others...