Word: begin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over Department of Agriculture marketing quotas a penalty tax of 50% of its price-provided that, in a referendum before the scheme goes into effect, two-thirds of the farmers affected approve the plan. Secretary Wallace's ever-normal granary would apply to both crops: the Government would begin to buy wheat for use in periods of scarcity when the supply is 10% above normal, corn when it reaches normal. For cotton and tobacco farmers, the bill provided both penalties for overproduction and bounty payments to encourage them to divert unneeded land to other uses; for rice, quotas were...
Freshman track has its official beginning Monday with a meeting in the chess wing of the Union. Now that the football squad is out of the Cage, work will begin in earnest for the winter season...
...Pinkle did not know quite when it began, but it did begin. He thought it started the day before his mother swallowed one of his guppies. He was never sure that when it did begin he was conscious of it. All he knew was that it began...
...made where academic teachers are needed. Day after Superintendent Johnson's extraordinary announcement, the Board of Education began to carry out his unique plan by establishing qualifications for vocational teachers, appointing supervisors of teacher training and vocational education, directing that the 12-month year for trade schools begin next February...
They did not begin to study education until late, as it was natural that they should shy from turning their eyes inward upon themselves...