Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Harvard, where there is a strong masculine tradition never to be caught short, the new vogue will probably not get much of a start. If there were nothing else to stop this demonstration of male beauty there remains the significant fact that the modest maidens across the Commons strenuously object to a show of hairy legs in Cambridge tea rooms. So Dartmouth will have its short pants, Yale its natty caps, and Princeton its beer suits. For Harvard there remains nothing but a little old-fashioned dignity...
...understood that the hiroling will start walking some time in the morning and will continue to do so right up to the time of the dance...
...start of the fateful fifth frame, the first four men hit safely, and additional runs were scored on a Harvard error, followed by a timely two-base hit by a Dean batter. A second Crimson blunder in the sixth inning netted the visitors another run. Aside from these disastrous innings, the seconds played a good brand of ball against their opponents, who have a powerful club this year...
...William Berryman Scott, patriarchal Princeton paleontologist, described a dinner party held in Ecuador some 1,600 years ago. A group of Indians sat watery-mouthed while mastodon steaks were sizzling over their fire. Beside the fire were laid their fine Mayan dishes. As the banquet was about to start, woe, in the form of a clay bank, descended upon the party, preserved the bones and pottery for posterity. Uncovered in 1927 by German archeologists, the find redated the reign of the mastodon. Until lately the mastodon was generally thought to have died about 20,000 years...
...Brice Goldsborough, expert of Pioneer Instrument Co., was navigator on Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian Dawn which was lost between New York and Newfoundland at the start of a trans-Atlantic flight (TIME...