Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot whereby a woman juror was to receive a $25,000 bribe for holding out for acquittal, a jury, sequestered in the Statler Hotel, found Messrs. Campbell & McGee guilty as charged. Same day, accompanied by policemen but not by their musicians, Messrs. Campbell & McGee motored to Ohio Penitentiary, to start serving one-to-five-year sentences...
...line 30 yards behind him-he breezed through a mile in 4 min. 7.4 sec., breaking his own (recognized) indoor record by one second. Seventy minutes later he attempted something more difficult. He entered the 600-yard race, less than half his usual distance. The others made a sprinting start. He elected to start standing up, and was promptly left behind. Then his legs began to pump and he pulled up on the leaders. With a terrific sprint he crossed the line in 1 min., 11.3 sec., tying the world's record. It did him no good...
...start of the meeting. Paul Olum was elected treasurer of the H. S. U. on a second ballot. The minute the floor was thrown open to debate on the first point of the Vasear platform...
...major factor is the date at which each of these seven powers began arming at top speed, since obviously those which are catching up now must spend even more frantically than those which have been in the race from the start. † On April 1, 1937 the British national deficit...
...years ago Lester Patrick did the same thing that Connie Mack has twice done in baseball: disbanded his great team to start building another from scratch. He had paved the way for doing so. Scouting -from the mill pond up-has long been the customary procedure in big-league hockey, but Lester Patrick four years ago brought an innovation to the sport when he started a training school for likely prospects. Because Eastern Canada has been so thoroughly scoured by scouts (75% of major-league players come from either Toronto or Ottawa), Manager Patrick opened his school in Winnipeg, where...