Word: starting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order to promote interest and competition in the club and its team from the very start, all the men who have played in the two tournaments which just ended, will be formed into two rank lists, one for squash, and one for squash racquets. A ladder tournament will be instituted among the members of each list in such a form that the leader in each list will hold his position only against continual competition. All men on the list, except the first ranking ten, can challenge at any time the man three places above him on the list...
Regular winter practice for the track men will start on January 5, immediately after the vacation. During the month of practice there will be weekly competitions in the various field events, and at present it is proposed to give a cup at the end of the month's work to the men in each event showing the greatest improvement...
...because of the erection of the mammoth Ice Palace now nearing completion at Forty-fifth and Market streets. Although operations were begun only on October 28, the steel work is up, parts of the roof have been put on, and the management hopes to be able to start skating on or about Christmas...
...First of all Armenia asks for universal recognition of her independence as an integral state that she may start to develop her policies to build a government and to recover from the havoc wrought by the war. Without recognition by the powers she cannot hope to survive...
Experiments in catapaulting the present type of machine, dependent for a start upon the swift passage of air over lift-creating planes, have increased the general interest in the possible development of the helicopter. In these experiments the machine is shot off a starting platform, much as a dart is thrown in the air. The start is so swift that the machine is able to pick up its flying speed and continue flight with its own engine...