Word: starter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honk. In Glendale, Calif., the flames that enveloped L. L. Biggs's garage short-circuited the starter of his car and jolted it out to safety, short-circuited the horn and awakened Biggs...
That sounded like good sense to the committee. At week's end, they voted 16-to-1 for the 70-group force, sent a bill to the Senate floor carrying $822 million to buy, as a starter, 825 new jet fighters (P-84s, improved P-80s), 28 heavy bombers (B-36s and B-50s) and jet bombers...
...starter, experts picked 52 of the most perishable pictures (mostly painted on brittle wood panels) to be shipped to Germany at once. The remaining 150 would be exhibited at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, beginning May 18. They would be returned in three installments (the last one on March 31, 1949), and meanwhile exhibited, in diminishing numbers and for a small fee, at scattered U.S. museums. Needy German children would get the profits. Last week museum representatives converged on Washington to get their bids in. Result: from the Metropolitan, the paintings, will go to Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis...
...adjoining diamond, the Indian Freshmen bunched their six hits and helped themselves to five earned runs off starter George Emmons. Roy Meears relieved in the seventh and pitched shutout ball for two innings. Harvard scored twice in the second to take a one-run lead and again in the fourth after Dartmouth had tallied thrice in its half...
Gabler has not started since the Freshman-Jayvee opener, although he has seen action in relief roles since. Meears has shone in relief assignments and, in his debut as a starter against Brown last week, he held the Cubs to two hits and a run in a brilliant, 11-inning mound stint...