Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After one parliamentary false start that bogged down after 45 minutes of acrimony in a premature adjournment, the House pulled itself together last week in stout resistance against the ukase of the Anti-Saloon League of America and shunted the First Deficiency Appropriation bill, carrying the Senate's $24,000,000 prohibition enforcement amendment, into a basement room at the Capitol. There, behind locked doors, five Senators and three Representatives went to wrestle mightily over the season's major Dry issue, far from the public glare...
...Stillings talked volubly to the press. He said he had invented the business, "lapsation" and all. Asked how he could pay a usurer's interest rate, he said: "If I told you. you would start in the business for yourself...
...Crimson five was outclassed from the start, scoring only four goals from the floor during the entire game. The poor passing and shooting of the Harvard players, together with their inability to cope with the speed and accuracy of the Dartmouth quintet made the contest extremely uninteresting for the spectators...
Although conceded a seven goal handicap at the start of the encounter, a foul by Quinlan took a half point from the Cossack score, while H. I. Nicholas '31, J. P. Cotton '29, and R. C. Walker '31, were building up the Harvard total with frequent tallies...
...Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet on Soldiers Field in July. It is expected that the steel girders and other materials used in the construction of the stands, will be factory-made and that the putting together of the individual parts will not occupy much time. Should an earlier start be necessary, however, Mr. Bingham feels that it can be undertaken without interfering with the track meet...