Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the earth began to rumble and mongrel dogs to moan in little Tonoyama-machi, suburb of Osaka, one bright afternoon last week, experienced citizens ran from their huts and houses crying "Jishin! Jishin!" (earthquake). But out in the streets they found their guess not horrible enough. The air was filled with a noise louder than thunder, with a light brighter than the sun, with flying bits of steel and brick far more deadly than the debris which falls during earthquakes. The people knew that the earthquake was manmade, and that its epicentre was the great Army ammunition depot near...
...year-old Mahatma sat down before a crowd of sympathetic spectators and ate a meal of brown bread, cooked vegetables, oranges and a cup of hot goat's milk. Then he retired to a rustic cot in a room as bare as a Sing Sing cell and began his sixth fast until victory or death...
...said that his name was John Bellinger, that he was 35 years old, that he was a cafe dishwasher, that he had always followed his nose until a few days before. Then he found it impossible to walk forward and, driven by an irresistible urge to walk backward, he began to follow another part of his body. Since hospital physicians found Bellinger in excellent physical health, they called in two psychiatrists...
...could not face the world, so he turned his back on it, attempted to retreat into a happy past. He had a simple case of hysteria, much milder than that of many sensitive persons who suddenly become blind or paralyzed when faced with an intolerable situation. Dr. Stapleton began to investigate Bellinger's "life activities from birth to the present," prepared to discuss Bellinger's conflicts with him, hoped to "reeducate him regarding a more adequate means of meeting his difficulties...
Except for the limited life of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, a brilliant nook run by high-brow Harvardians from 1928 to 1932, the first general awakening began four years ago. A drifting spore from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art took root in Boston as an "affiliate," was watered by about 50 members, made $1,500 on a Modern Arts Ball (now annual and famous as the only dance at which Boston society stays up until dawn). By 1937 there were 300 members. Two months ago, with 800 paying members, Boston's offshoot became a lusty...