Word: began
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decontamination and first-aid squads, raced over the grounds aiding the fake "victims." All this was part of a test cf the air-raid preparations for the castle, recently fitted with anti-gas and bombproof chambers. Eton College, just across the Thames, also was "attacked." The mock-raids began with an evening blackout, ended with divine service in the Windsor Parish Church...
With hundreds of stations all on the same frequency, radio sets from one end of the country to the other began to squeak & squawk with interference. Secretary Herbert Hoover called a conference of all radio interests, and a definite broadcasting band was set aside. This solution was only temporary. Stations grew steadily in number and power until all wave lengths were occupied. The Department of Commerce thereupon declined to issue any more licenses. A 1926 Federal court decision threw the whole situation into chaos again by ruling that the law did not authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length...
There he immediately took a sharply regulatory attitude and by more than one opinion established himself, to the dismay of his Republican sponsor, as a New Dealer before the New Deal began. Power Commissioner McNinch attacked holding companies two years before the Roosevelt Public Utility...
...half of the men and one-quarter of the women juniors and seniors in U. S. colleges have had premarital sex intercourse. Of these two out of three men and one out of three women began in high school...
...Harvard (founded 1636) but the University of San Marcos, in Lima, Peru. San Marcos was established in 1551. Today, housed in a 16th-Century Spanish colonial building, it is made up of a group of professional schools which train Peruvian Government officials. Last week University of San Marcos began to teach a language so ancient it was new even to old San Marcos. The tongue was Quechua, the dialect of the ancient Inca tribes. From it have come such English words as quinine, cocaine. Quechua is still the language of most of the Peruvian Indians. Although it has no literature...