Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beat Vale" signa started going of around Dillen Field House yesterday as the varsity football team knuckled town to start preparations in earnest for is final game of the aqaron Saturday at New Haven...
...start Anderson joined the Army. His study of languages finally had a practical result when the Army made him assistant chief of its Scandinavian desk at Washington. Among other things, he had to monitor broadcasts in Reykjavik, Iceland...
...musical career was well started, so Anderson decided that he would not have to teach after all, and quit Harvard. Before he could leave for New York, however, Arthur Fiedler, director of the Boston Pops, asked him to start writing for the orchestra. Beginning with "Harvard Fantasy" in 1937, and continuing with "Jazz Pizzicato" and "Jazz Legato," Anderson's compositions have become perennial favorites of Pops audiences...
Little did Cooper know what he was in for. The need to paint nothing in a know-nothing way grew on him day by day. He began getting up at 5 a.m. to start "work" on his pictures (abstractions done in watercolor, brown ink and pasted scraps of paper). To keep his art "automatic," he read the Book of Psalms while his hands did what they pleased. He became a vegetarian ("I don't think I could have worked so long on roast beef") and, what was more important, he found a dealer. Cooper's labors, on exhibition...
...wide open, a bumper field of 31 horses paraded to the post at beautiful Flemington course. There were nearly 108,000 Australians on hand to watch, and most of the commonwealth's other 7,000,000-odd stopped everything-even streetcars-while they listened by radio. At the start, a lightly regarded speedster named Bruin tripped to the front in the muddy going. Bruin was still leading in the homestretch when three other horses charged up from behind...