Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Some 15,000 swim-happy fans fell tensely silent as the starter for the crucial 400-meter free-style event barked "Yoi [get set]!" Crouched alongside Marshall and Furuhashi were two other champion-caliber swimmers: the Hawaiian-born Nisei, Ford Konno, who had broken the world's 1,500-meter record the day before, and the U.S. Olympic ace, Jim McLane. They hit the water in unison...
...flying fish of Fujiyama" won by ten yards. His time: 4:33 1/5, a new world record. In the 800-meter, Furuhashi set another world record: 9:42 4/5, beating out Konno by three yards. Marshall churned home an unhappy third...
There was no argument about speculation having been heavy since the Korean war started, but the booming economy had set off price rises long before that. Traders argued that scarcity, not speculative buying & selling alone, had also boosted prices. The commodities which have been most heavily traded in the past two months have had the smallest price rise; e.g., the 128% jump in egg trading has produced only a 5.4% price increase...
Three years later, at 25, he and four friends chipped in $50 apiece to organize Boston Fund, Inc., which Kelley ran when his co-founders withdrew, and which now has assets of $52 million. The next year he helped set up Consolidated Investment Trust (current assets: $23 million). After that he moved quickly into directorships and trusteeships of nine companies and charitable organizations. Despite his fast rise, Kelley Anderson has a modest explanation of his success: "I've always been fortunate in getting to work with older and more experienced men in new jobs...
...Back Tuesday." When they got to Oxford, the professor was delighted. For Aquila, he arranged a series of instructive meetings with progressive people that kept the young man fully occupied. For Anisetta and himself, the professor set up a cozy week in the country. Before she went off, Anisetta wrote a note that she thought would surely bring Aquila in pursuit, cure him of being progressive once & for all: "Have gone to live in sin for a week with Professor Lissom, back Tuesday lunch-your loving wife A." Uncle Giorgio thought the note would be enough, too, but it wasn...