Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that, despite the intensive grain growing of this year, unfavorable weather conditions brought down the national crop to a bare sufficiency for Russia's own grain needs. There were even scareheads in the U. S. press, last fortnight, that the Soviets faced a famine and would have to start buying U. S. grain. To spike this rumor up rose potent Saul G. Bron, Super-Purchasing & SuperSelling Agent of the Soviet State in Manhattan. Mr. Bron is large, untidy, jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich Ph. D. He served apprenticeship to his present post of huge...
...recent paper famine" in Moscow, although the Soviet Monopoly was even then shipping paper to Persia in thumping shipload lots. The deal was put through by His Highness Timoor Tash, favorite Courtier of the Shah of Persia, on a recent visit to Moscow. It was thought politic to start a paper chain of commerce between Moscow and Teheran, then and there-even at the cost of robbing the Russian paper market so drastically that when Moscow schools opened for the Fall term little or no paper could be allotted students to scribble their sums...
...columns) ; Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (5 columns); Actor Maurice Barrymore (2 columns). The need of such a dictionary was first voiced by the American Council of Learned Societies in 1922. Dr. Johnson was appointed editor-in-chief, and a com mittee cast about to find sufficient funds to start the work. Funds ($500,000) were speedily donated on behalf of the New York Times by its publisher and control ling owner, Adolph S. Ochs. The first volume is a dignified maroon tome. The biographies are entertaining, lucid, informative. There are no pictures. The publishers (Charles Scribner's Sons, Manhattan...
Finally the house is full. With ponderous trimmings the ceremonies start; the picture runs its petty pace; friends cheer friends; foes whisper obloquies. Then to the stage steps someone who is someone. He makes a speech. He summons to his side the stars of the particular pictures. They bow and blush. The audience cheers wildly. Some people get bored and go out. Soon everyone goes out. Outside the radio tells the world the stars are going out. More cheers. Cries of "good night...
...mile course has been changed slightly this year, although it still retains the double jaunt over the hills. The harriers will start and finish near Broadway, and will cut down near the end of the park before doubling back for their journey under the trestle and over the hills...