Word: begin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate continued its struggle with the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Minute seemed the possibility that it would even begin to debate schedules before the closing of the special session. Yet Senators, unmindful or unworried, last week made little tariff progress, went instead down two attractive bypaths. One bypath was the issue of Philippine Independence (see p. 17). Another was the issue of censor ship, by U. S. Customs officials, of allegedly obscene books imported to U. S. shores...
...Quincy we are finding it very difficult to play 'Strange Interlude' as it should be done. To begin with, we were accustomed to the small John Golden Theatre in New York, and find a motion picture theatre, which we are forced to use in Quincy, a bad place to put across our lines. Can you imagine shouting the asides of 'Strange Interlude' so as to make them heard in a barn of a theatre, after being accustomed to an auditorium of the most informal sort...
Already they begin to see the shadows of coming events, as the gloom of November hours threatens to envelope them. And there begins to be born for the first time among them, in the face of a common enemy, a community of spirit. They have set up a Castle of Indolence: they have done those things which ought not to have been done. And the things which ought to have been done will be the subject of long penitential lucubrations...
There will be a Fire Drill in three minutes, children. The Eighth Grade will form in two orderly lines in front of Escape 16. . . . Good morning, pupils. Attention. Stand. Now the morning calisthenics will begin. . . . Will Charles Robbins, Room number Nine, please report to the Principal's office. . . . Charles Robbins...
While en route from Liverpool to the United States, Professor Garrod lost his accumulated lectures of five years, and has not yet recovered them. As a result he has found it necessary to begin anew his writing, in order to prepare for the Norton lectures here...