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Word: starter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When you get inside and start looking at details the superiority of the old car becomes apparent. Although many of the choicest specimens to be seen around the university lack a self-starter, it must be admitted that this device has its merits. However, the simplified dashboard of a modern car can only excite a feeling of contempt in the mind of a true old car fancier...

Author: By Robert Marsh, | Title: Venerable Heaps Journey Homeward | 8/16/1951 | See Source »

...California can always draw on the water of the northern rain country, while Arizona's future growth must come from the Colorado. The report itself pays no attention to political bickering. With scientific detachment, it estimates what the new tools of irrigation engineering could do with (as a starter) the Klamath River, which rises in Oregon and enters the Pacific just south of California's northern boundary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Endless Frontier | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...Self-Starter. In Starks, La., after vainly trying to start his car, George Henry got two sticks of dynamite, scattered spare parts all over town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 11, 1951 | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

Yard softball competition reached its climax yesterday, as Matthews South topped previously unbeaten Matthews North, 11 to 8. Relief pitcher Ed Suss scored the win after starter Jack Little was yanked in the fourth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale College Downs Adams, 7-6, in Final Baseball Game | 5/22/1951 | See Source »

Stuffy McInnis will probably start John Donelan against the Quakers this afternoon and either Bob Ward or Rufe Webb tomorrow. Penn's pitching has been extremely spotty all season, and today's starter, Bob Brooks, has been unable, in spite of a two-and-one record, to finish a game this spring...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Baseball Team to Play Penn Today, Lions Tomorrow | 5/18/1951 | See Source »

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