Word: started
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...From experiences in many lands I have sometimes compared some of these systems to a race. In the American system ... we train the runners, we strive to give to them an equal start, our government is the umpire. . . . Socialism or its violent brother, Bolshevism, would compel all the runners to end the race equally; it would hold the swiftest to the speed of the most backward. Anarchy would provide neither training nor umpire. Despotism or class government picks those who run and also those...
...chest a deep grudge against the stockmarket. "This 'depression' we hear about," he told Cologne reporters, "is due to laziness! People wanted something for nothing. . . . They wanted to gamble on the stock exchange. They didn't want to work. The crash was a good thing; it has made them start working and thinking again. That will lead to new levels, new attainments in quality and a new era of prosperity. You watch. It is coming...
...swung into his speech, was suddenly seized from behind by a strange young man in immaculate evening dress who forced Secretary Thomas back into his seat. (Even this and what followed did not cause Prince Arthur to reveal by so much as a glance or unbecoming Royal start that he noticed what was happening...
There was another question. The R-101 had a smoking room. It was well insulated from the inflammable hydrogen. So was the small amount of gasoline carried to start the oil motors. Was there any danger of explosion...
...swirling designs on wet plaster with a very small brush. Beside him his master plasterer and assistant Juan Jorge Crespo, prepares the wall for Orozco to paint, two square yards at a time. "Fresco painting," explained Artist Orozco, "has much to do with the time of day. If I start one piece at ten in the morning, I must start the next piece at ten the next morning so that the colors will dry the same...