Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although his book is just off the press, Professor Haldane. when writing it a few weeks ago, thought there was yet time for London to start on a two-year program of digging 1,000 miles of brick-lined tunnels at a depth of 60 feet in which the entire metropolitan population of 8,000,000 could be sheltered. Estimated cost: $2,000,000,000. The professor, while noting that many Britons have told him they would rather die than live thus under conditions which would make them part-time moles, resolutely insisted that Spain has proved the fallacy...
...unable to breathe for some seconds, and indeed thought that my throat had been torn away, and that I had only another half-minute or so to live. I did not notice that I had been wounded until I felt that my throat was intact, and managed to start breathing again...
Free School Lane. The Cavendish Laboratory came to birth in 1870 when the Seventh Duke of Devonshire (whose family name was Cavendish) gave Cambridge $31,500 to start a physics department. First building was a three-story, L-shaped affair which is still standing, though its once-white stone is now black with age. First director was James Clerk Maxwell, a Scotsman who as a schoolboy wore lace frill collars, a tunic and square-toed shoes, was considered peculiar by his mates. They were quite right. When he was hardly past 30, Maxwell invented electro-magnetic waves (e.g., wireless waves...
Hurricane delayed trains and curricular activities have hindered early practice this fall. To date Coach Skip Stahley and his staff have limited practice to fundamentals, but will start early this week in preparation for the season opener with Exeter a week from Saturday. Other games are Worcester Academy, Andover, Dartmouth Freshmen, and the finale with Yale...
...aware, however, that as concerns the Ostmark [late Austria], the circumstances are very different. If we make a start there, a frightful mess will be brought to the surface. But the actual time of making that start must be left to the leadership...