Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tunnels are forced to this speed, and a few of them can be, they hit a fantastic difficulty. The air expands and gets so cold that its oxygen and nitrogen condense into liquids. Princeton will study this disturbing phenomenon and try to deal with it before the practical engineers start working at Mach...
...plump and gaudy stage piece, a thing of fierce desires, clashing wills, momentous acts. For love or lust of Anne, Henry divorced Catherine of Aragon, broke with Rome, opened an age of bloodshed; while the insolent and ambitious Anne would be Henry's queen or nothing at the start, still his queen or nothing at the end-preferring, in Mr. Anderson's account, the block to banishment...
Latest news from the psychosomatic front: many cases of trench mouth and inflammation of the gums start out as inflamed emotions. Said Research Assistant Sol J. Ewen of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center: dentists should open up a little wider, get a mouthful of psychiatry...
...their enterprise, Fish, Pipeline President Williams and the group of original promoters already had a fat paper profit. To start, they had put up $11,600,000 in all, for 1,610,000 shares of common stock, thus getting it at $7.20 a share. As the rest of the common stock which was sold went for $10 a share, they already had a paper profit of close to $4.5 million...
...giving them a run for their money. As the summer drew to a close, the late Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman's Peace of Mind, after months of leadership, had been replaced by Dale Carnegie's more practical guide to the same end, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. Even so, a surprising number of better books had climbed up among the top moneymakers...