Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although elated over the fact that a Harvard man had dared to start, track coach Jaakko Mikkola said last night: "I would not advise any college student to try to run the B.A.A. Marathon, because he has not sufficient time to train...
...main event of the meet will be a handicap treasure hunt, with only qualified pilots entered. Information is handed out at the start which gives a clue to the first destination. The flyers will not have to land on any field not an airport. Sometimes directions will be laid so that actual landing will not be necessary. After the order of ordinary treasure hunts, the first plane returning to the starting point having fulfilled the requirements is the winner...
...guitar. Unlike his half-dozen drowned predecessors, Willow Joe makes it. Then he lands in prison for shooting a man. His luck gets worse & worse. Then he becomes a hero in a big flood, is rewarded with a nice farm in the hills. But come summer, the Pennys start complaining- even the clock "ain't been ticking natural" -and sneak back happily to the storms, floods, fever, gyp salesmen, rousing revival meetings, fighting and good catfishing at Beaver Slough...
...forget for a moment the Spanish war, the Chinese war, the Government spending-lending plan. Roosevelt, Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier are today just ordinary persons. The Olympic games, the Grand National, the Wimbledon and Davis Cup tennis, Rose Bowl football; they are just ordinary sports events. For today is the start of the world's biggest sports spectacle the opening of the major league baseball season, with sixteen teams ready to start a 154-game grind down to the home stretch and the World Series...
Outstanding among the Harvard forwards was Austie Scott, the acting captain. He broke away several times to start passing rushes and scored one try himself...