Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. supper begins promptly at 3:10 p. m. Reason: the institution is so overcrowded that eating must start early to get the last convict fed before bedtime. To remedy this and many another condition of convict-herding, which goaded U. S. prisoners to riotous fury last year, the House of Representatives last week approved a batch of bills to start President Hoover's $7,000,000 prison reform program. Among other things they provided...
...late Poet James Whitcomb Riley, said Miss Maude Wells, his one-time stenographer: "Sometimes Riley would go for a year or two without touching liquor. When he did start to drink, he drank until his system was satisfied, however. Drinking was a family curse that ran back for generations...
...still further extension of the Intramural System as already in force under the regulation of A. W. Samborski '25 is the institution of a Faculty Squash Tournament, which is to start immediately...
Glueck's hope is that he can at least start some discussion on his proposed system, and possibly have it tried tentatively though not adhered to too rigidly. If this survey has the effect which seems likely, there may be revolutionary changes in the systems now employed...
...influential clients but as a rule are confined to the indiscretions of their secretaries, and consequently the young lawyer must make a series of trying debuts under the judicial and slightly watery eye of the municipal court. With a view to preparation for these encounters the Law School might start a course of instruction in the proper deference to be accorded such magistrates, justices of the peace and others...