Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ninety per cent of the players prefer billiards," Ben claimed, "but they all start out wrong, in fact, everyone starts wrong. It is this early misunderstanding of the game that accounts for the fact that there are only 12 good billiard players in the country...
...Turn it over," some of the crowd shouted as Browder entered the automobile. The car was rocked from side to side, but the driver managed to start it before it could be overturned...
Paced by smooth-passing, slick-running, drop-kicking Nile Kinnick, the little band of Hawkeyes (Anderson uses only five or six substitutes a game) came from behind to lick mighty Minnesota, 13-to-9-their first victory over Minnesota in ten years. At the start of the season, even the most loyal Iowa rooter expected nothing more than a second-division Conference place for the Hawkeyes. Last week Iowa was in second place, with a chance to tie Ohio State for the Big Ten title...
...Hendrick is the fact that the South's Civil War statesmen represented the "new men" of the cotton belt, not the aristocracy of the Old South. Jeff Davis was born in a log cabin 120 miles from Lincoln's slightly smaller birthplace. Vice President Stephens got his start as a "corn dropper" on his father's small farm. Secretary of the Treasury Memminger, born in Germany, was brought up in a Charleston orphanage. Secretary of the Navy Mallory helped his mother in a Florida boardinghouse. Secretary of State Benjamin was the son of a Jewish fishmonger...
That tradition got off to a flying start with the fight against the colonial laws of primogeniture and entail, which permitted handing down intact such estates as that of the Van Rensselaers (3,000 farms, 436,000 acres). Far more complicated is Author Myers' tracing of that tradition in the struggle against "corporation aristocracy" and inherited wealth. From Andrew Jackson v. the Bank of the U. S. down, it is a fight in which inherited wealth wins the battles and loses the war. Value of Author Myers' documentation is that he keeps his eye on the whole...