Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...points. The University team is expected to gain six much-needed points in the broad jump and shot put to carry it through to victory, but its chances are slim at the best. French should take second place, but here again he may be handicapped by his late start in training. Last year he won the event with a leap of 22 feet 1 1-4 inches, but this year Dartmouth has Canby, the favorite, who is capable of a 23-foot jump. Donner of the Green has also leapt well over 22 feet. Becker of Cornell must also...
...here is the right of undergraduates to think for themselves, and to criticize the educational experiments of which they themselves are to be the subject matter. Their strictures may be ridiculously conservative. Undergraduate opinion usually is. But independent thinking must begin somewhere, and the way to begin is to start. The University itself is perhaps unwilling that a gift of $13,000,000 should be construed as constituting ipso facto immunity from critical comment by its undergraduates...
Schedulemakers have decided upon April 16, a Tuesday, as the opening date for major league baseball this year. In the National League, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Cincinnati-in the American League, St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington and New York-will start at home...
...conceited, cultured, intelligent member of the best Continental society is forced by sudden poverty to start his life over again in a tremendously different environment. He accepts his new position, or rather the lack of it, in an adventurous spirit, despite the disillusionments and disappointments lying in his path. The large body of the book is taken up with the transition in the immigrant's whole attitude, his entire philosophy, from that of an over-educated gentlemen of leisure into a semi-radical but far more human character...
They will start work in Cuba where the greatest number and variety of tropical plants from all over the world may be seen growing together in profusion. Microscopic films showing plant tissues, and films taken in other parts of America will also be made to round out the present production making it as complete as possible. Films will be taken wherever material may be found to illustrate the thesis...