Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ingenuity and courage that reside in twelve or 13 million unemployed men is helpless to take up this new frontier without tremendous organization of productive forces such as only Government can supply when business is in the doldrums." Henceforth, in short, the Government should subsidize citizens who need to start or recoup their fortunes on the frontier of work-not-offered-by-private-enterprise...
...Kitchen Cabinet" (Messrs. Corcoran, James Roosevelt, Joe Keenan et al.), and increasingly convinced of his right to play a part in politics, Harry Hopkins replies to such attacks: "They can call names just so often. I know a lot of adjectives my self and I am going to start in pretty soon...
...Italian people therefore will have the necessary bread to live, but even if it had been lacking, we should never-I say, never-have been compelled to seek any aid whatsoever from those so-called great demo-plutocracies. . . . Comrade mechanics, start the motor. Comrade farmers, the harvest begins," proclaimed Il Duce. Stepping down from his perch, he pitched in with the threshers, for an hour jerked open stacks of wheat and tossed them into the hopper. He repeated his performance later in Pontinia, Littoria and Sabaudia, three other towns built in the Pontine area (TIME...
...Sweet Stuff, 5 ft. 7 in., nine-year-old rattler owned by Dr. Frank Sweet: the Arkansas Rattlesnake Derby; defeating a field of 47 defanged racing snakes who were sent off to a lively start by electrically charged copper wires nailed to the board on which they were placed (in the centre of a circle 500 feet in circumference) ; reaching the circle's edge in 4 min., 55 sec.; at North Little Rock...
...with General Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc., for which in three years' time he became a top-notch salesman. But dis gruntled by a long string of Depression salary cuts, he quit the job in 1933, sold his old Ford for $150 and used the money to start a business of his own. In Times Square last week-a little over five years later-he snapped a switch to light his latest advertising creation, a mammoth animated cartoon for Old Gold cigarets...