Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the "P. E." is in its infancy, Pinchas Rutenberg has already announced plans for a 50,000 acre irrigation system; and for a "P. E." finance corporation to start and develop enterprises dependent upon electric power. By the time Great Britain's mandate over Palestine expires, it is quite possible that Pinchas Rutenberg will have developed a vertical and horizontal trust so vast that the only way of adequately protecting the capital involved will be to create the Seventh Dominion. Certainly the degraded and impoverished natives of Palestine, who would be raised up to "Rutenberg prosperity" during such...
Said he: "This new plan would enable the bright pupil to save two years in his preparatory training. Going directly from the two-year junior college into the professional colleges he would have a two-year start on the average professional man of today...
...weekly series of races was run. The season began with 20 invited guests and ended with scores of interlopers. A blackamoor in jockey silks doled out refreshments. There were printed racing sheets, from Mr. Geddes' own press. A bugle sounded before each start. Comic relief was provided by steeplechase events in which obstacles were placed on the course to cause realistic jumps and falls. In all there were 800 horses, owned in groups or "stables" by 100 people, among them Dramacritic Alexander Woollcott, Colyumist Heywood Broun, Artist Peter Arno, Ziegfeld Ballerina Claire Luce...
...match was decided by the last bout of the day between F. C. Fiechter '32 and D. P. Frame of Andover in which the latter won 5 to 3. Previous to this contest, the 1932 swordsmen rallied after a poor start to make the count stand four...
Asked if he believed in prohibition, the Robot answered "I don't know, when does it start?" Among other items of information accumulated in this human machine are the times of arrival and departure of all Boston-New York trains. The inventor even claims the ability to evoke after slight training a correct Harvard pose and accent, if desired...