Word: begat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning there was a namelessness with the beautiful shape of an egg. It divided, and became heaven and earth. And it divided again and became male and female. These in their turn begat Izanagi and Izanami, who begat the Sun Goddess, who had a great-great-grandson named Jimmu Tenno, who descended to rule the earth...
This was the first time that Harvard had ever officially condemned the Mass. Avenue tutoring schools. For half a century the cram parlors had grown and begat and prospered until they were hundred thousand dollar businesses which had almost as much to do with granting diplomas as the College itself. And across the street in the Yard the only reaction had been closed eyes or shrugged shoulders. Then on May 19 last, the Faculty Council finally recognized that this thing had gone too far, and started out to do something about...