Word: begin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young team of Baltimore eye specialists, Dr. William Councilman Owens and his wife, Dr. Ella Uhler Owens, decided to begin at the beginning. In 1945 they started to study every baby weighing 4½ pounds or less born at Johns Hopkins Hospital or taken to its nursery. They observed 214 in two years. No baby had R.L.F. at birth, but five developed...
...retired behind the breastworks of "No comment," ABC let fly a ringing announcement: "No changes will be made in ABC programs as a result of the FCC regulations. We feel certain that...injunctive relief will be granted to the radio industry...as a result of litigation which ABC will begin immediately." CBS announced it would join in seeking court review of the ruling...
...Communist-controlled Shanghai, Buddhist monks of the Bubbling Well Temple, finding that revenues from religious services had fallen off, announced that they would begin making stockings...
Hips & Door Butts. Such a man may choose his own lot and design his own house for a contractor to build-if he combines the patience of Job with the energy of Samson. He would begin by learning the necessary background for an intelligent lot-seeker, making it his business to study drainage, zoning, prevailing winds, taxes and prospects for taxes, new developments and proposals for new highways & byways in the county. Before designing the house itself he would cram his head with tables of construction costs (still more than double what they were ten years ago), master the rudiments...
...prove his point, Dobbs bought an airport restaurant back home in Memphis. Before long, his reputation for tasty, packaged plane meals enabled him to branch out to airports in 21 other cities, begin catering to 16 U.S. airlines. In San Antonio this week, he opens his newest airport restaurant, serving such Dobbs delicacies as rainbow trout cooked in almond sauce, and baked potatoes kept hot in metal foil. This year Jimmy Dobbs, 55, expects his airport restaurant gross to exceed...