Word: began
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then followed a minute of devotional silence, a real silence rare for the House. Then Dr. Eaton began...
Auctioneer C. W. Harrison climbed up behind his desk, rapped with his gavel. "We regret that His Royal Highness has had to relinquish the sport of which he was so fond," he began, "but we admire his patriotic action at a time when additional duties devolve upon him through the king's illness-it goes to the heart...
Baseball practice for the 1929 season began with a light workout of battery candidates at the Soldiers Field cage yesterday afternoon. The practice was short and was devoted to a light warming up of the candidates...
...Advisory Council of the Reserve system (a group of private bankers & businessmen appointed by directors of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks) emphatically endorsed the Reserve Board's warning of last fortnight. The Reserve banks themselves began to tighten money by selling government securities and bankers' acceptances. Member banks beckoned for about $60,000,000 of outstanding call money...
...called the Hahn painting "translucent," and the Louvre painting "dirty." Technically he was wise, but Lawyer Levy confounded him with questions on art history and showed that M. Chernoff's advice had rarely, if ever, been sought in weighty controversy. Sir Joseph chuckled as the Chernoff lecture began. Later he gazed into a newspaper with obvious boredom. When M. Chernoff gave his opinion that the Hahn painting was a Leonardo and that the Louvre painting was not a Leonardo, Sir Joseph mumbled: "By Jove! Sacrilege...