Word: begin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just finished reading "4½ minutes of Death" [TIME, July 23]. I presume the man was really "dead." If the blood had not been injected in his veins, causing his heart to begin to beat and bringing him back to life, he would have gone to his grave...
...hope that we may now begin to record for you in the pages of TIME a period of reconstruction and peace and progress which will extend beyond the last edition of this or any other magazine...
...reconversion outlook for some representative U.S. companies: GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. Output of tires and plastics for civilians can begin immediately. Estimated postwar employment: 30% greater than the prewar peak of 28,561, but only 30% of their 1942 wartime employment peak...
...Teach the Heart." During con versation-less meals in the peaceful refec tory they listen to reading selected "to teach the heart [and] the intellect." At day's end (8:30 p.m.), with the words, "the Divine help remain with us always, Amen," they begin the Great Silence which (except for words of worship) lasts until after breakfast the next morning...
...master's degree in 19th Century English literature at Columbia University without being required to read a word of Trollope. Not until the 1930s did the first stirrings of reviving interest come; not until the first years of World War II did Trollope's stock begin, very perceptibly, to rise again...