Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also is in favor of slum clearance and better housing. Refusing to comment about the personnel of the present Council he remarked "I don't wan't to start a mud slinging campaign...
...start of last year's schedule sports scribes chose to minimize the loss of the mighty Clint Frank and predicted a better-than-average record for Ducky Pond's machine. The Elis went on to stagger through the most disastrous season in Yale annals, winning two out of eight games. Now the situation is reversed. With experts foretelling nothing but lean days for the Bulldog, there are few individuals in the vicinity of New Haven who give Yale a fifty-fifty chance of improving even on last year's performance...
Play in all House tournaments will start on the first pleasant...
Bombs laden with disease germs, another persistent bugaboo of modern warfare, are shrugged off by bacteriologists. Man, they say, can culture and concentrate disease organisms, but it is hardly likely that he can start epidemics in civil populations unless he reproduces the conditions, many of which are still unknown, which make natural epidemics possible...
...instead of an increase in U. S. buying (which had gone up steadily since 1934), there was a heavy decrease. Japanese sales to Sears, Roebuck fell off 70%, sales to five-and-ten chains dropped, sales of silk and Japanese textiles tumbled. With a good start, Japan's sales to the U. S. at the end of 1937 hit $204,201,000, and from the U. S. it bought $288,558.-ooo. But by the end of 1938 sales to the U. S. dropped to $126.820,000, purchases in the U. S. dropped to $239,620,000 and Japanese...