Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Speeches. Mrs. Eleanor Bolling Byrd (mother) : "Next time you start on any expeditions someone is going to chloroform...
...crew that comes out of its starting spirit first is usually master of a race. Harvard was a nose in front at the start last week on the Thames in New London, but little Gillespie, the Yale coxswain, was shouting less often into the face of Woodruff Tappen, the big stroke. Yale cut its beat to 32, began to gain as soon as Harvard dropped from 40. It was a slate-grey afternoon; on the varnished river the fleet of yachts strung with pennants, crowded with people in summer clothes, stood in silence as the boats swept past the half...
...patents-John Edward Otterson of Electrical Research Products Co., Inc., Charles J. Ross, John Cecil Graham representing Paramount, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Pathe, Radio Corp., George E. Quigley of Warner Bros. They settled down to debate their problems amicably until they decide whether to make an agreement or start a trade war. Will Hays, on the motion of Dr. Curt Sobernheim, general manager of the Commerz-und Privat-Bank of Berlin, was elected chairman. Said Chairman Hays (Presbyterian elder) : "Who can say . . . that the talking picture may not be the mightiest of all agencies for world peace...
...instructed the British mint, makers of Rumanian money, to stop work on the "King Mihai" series of which several million coins have been struck. The new Rumanian law of annulment (TIME, June 16) states that Carol's son Mihai was never King. As soon as possible busy Britains will start stamping "King Carol II" coins, printing "King Carol" postage stamps...
...Harvard Freshmen will go to the starting flags with an impressive string of victories to make them a heavy favorite. The yearlings are an unusually powerful group of oarsmen, and should have little trouble with their Eli foes. The Harvard Jayvees, poor at the start of the season, have developed into likely winners in tomorrow's preliminary...