The Negro League teams were started in the nineteen twenties to give black people a place to play baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

They finally agreed to send federal troops to Chicago -- where the strike had started -- to enforce federal postal laws.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

She and her sister started an organization that provides money to young African women who want to study science.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

Engineering and accounting graduates were more likely to have started their job search already and to have accepted a job.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Clara Barton started her life as a nurse during the early days of the Civil War in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

But intensive logging in this part of Finland has started to threaten the work and culture of this group.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

A few months earlier, the government of President George Washington had started a contest for the best design for the Capitol.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

He started to walk north. After a time, he arrived in the Bronx, the northern part of New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

The workers made good progress on the project until they started working near Big Bend Mountain in West Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

And they say band leader Rivers Cuomo still writes fresh and funny songs seventeen years after the band started.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

It was the largest and most difficult structure of its kind ever built when work started in nineteen thirty-one.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

So,at the age of forty-seven she started to glue crushed colored glass in special designs on every surface in her house.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

She signed it. Then,as she started to rise from the table, Azalea Adair fainted and fell to the floor.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

Slowly and surely I started learning and eventually it got into my blood, and I just got devoted to it."

VOA: special.2009.08.19