Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their safety. Behind these gathering events, crowding arguments, confusing maneuvers that made up the Great Debate on U. S. neutrality, every U. S. citizen last week could feel, if he could not see, the vital, life-&-death issue: peace or war. To the great oratorical fugue about to start in the Capitol, never had there been a more unanimously attentive audience. The man who will play the counterpoint in that fugue, his eyebrows now white with time, sat brooding in his hideaway, now and then napping on a creaking old black-leather couch. Borah was ready for the fight...
When it was over they carried Lou to a hospital with a good start on his first cauliflower ear. Tony went back to his New Jersey barroom, with his puffy eyes on Detroit and a great bully-boy future. Said he: "I'll knock out dat bum Louis in two rounds...
...will be counted in the future. Its effect on the industry is already apparent. No longer are planes virtually made to order as they were only last year. Every big plant is on a quantity production basis. Glenn Luther Martin's plant at Middle River, Md., got its start with a real automobile-type assembly line with thumping orders of 151 Bio bombers from the Army and 117 more from The Netherlands. North American sold 350 of its BT-9s to the Air Corps and 457 BT-9s and BC-1s (a combat edition) to France and Britain...
Part of Hutchins Hapgood's "wonderful wasted life" has been told in the candid memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan, for whose famed Manhattan salon he once served as chief talent scout. He appeared again in the autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, under whom he got his start as a journalist specializing in Bowery bums, thugs, anarchists and trends. His late brother Norman, famed reformist editor, and Mary Heaton Vorse are among a half dozen others who included him in their autobiographies. Last week he gave his own version of his story...
More than three hundred Harvard students cut short their summer vacation by a week or more to return to Cambridge and start looking for outside jobs to help pay their expenses, it was reported today by Russell T. Sharpe '28, director of the Student Employment Office...