Word: began
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Religious Dissent The story on Ireland's shrinking priesthood began with an unappealing mock classified ad [Dec. 14]. How about "Wanted: Young men with no interest in sex with women to work with impressionable young boys?" This marketing line worked in the past. William Silvert, PERAL, PORTUGAL...
...York City, and includes the work of 15 artists born from 1941 to 1981 - years when the democratic ideals of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first leader, slowly warped into Islamic nationalism and, later, iron rule by military dictators backed by foreign governments. But Pakistani art also began to mature during this period. Galleries and journals were established, and artists like Chughtai and Sadequain flavored their international modernism with local flair. See the top 10 nonfiction books...
When astronomers began spotting planets around distant stars in the mid-1990s, they were baffled. Many of these early discoveries involved worlds as big as Jupiter or even bigger - but they orbited their stars so tightly that their "years" were just days long. Nobody could imagine how a Jupiter or anything like it could form in such a hostile location, where the radiation of the parent star would have pushed the light gas - which makes up most of such a planet's mass - out to the farthest reaches of the solar system before it could ever coalesce...
...Harvard (8-4-3, 6-4-1 ECAC) began play in late October inauspiciously, struggling early on to a 2-3-0 start before an eight-game stretch without a loss propelled the team back into the national rankings. This weekend, the Crimson took the ice for the first time since Dec. 8, once again scuffling out of the gate with a 3-3 tie against Princeton (9-9-3, 7-4-3) on Friday and a 1-0 loss yesterday to Quinnipiac...
...Crimson could not close out Friday as well as the day began, falling to the Scarlet Knights in Newark, N.J. Freshman Tony Buxton (141) provided a boost for Harvard, opening the match with an 11-0 major decision. Coupled with a 6-3 decision for Keith, the rookies demonstrated their full potential...