Word: begin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North American hurricanes start in the same area. Somewhere in "the doldrums," a generally calm region in the equatorial Atlantic between the Cape Verde Islands and the West Indies, waves of heated air molecules begin to rise from the warm sea. As cooler molecules rush in from the sides to take their place, and the rising air, saturated with ocean vapor, cools off in the upper atmosphere, the air currents move faster & faster. Soon the growing whirlwind, given a counterclockwise spiraling motion by the earth's rotation (it is clockwise in the Southern hemisphere), resembles a vast phonograph record...
...place from which to begin anew, Banker Aldrich suggested a plan of his own, which soared so far above considerations of the practical political and economic possibilities as to make him seem an unworldly visionary...
After completing six weeks of study at the School of Military Government in Charlottesville, Virginia, approximately 80 Army and Navy officers have moved to the Civil Affairs Training School at Harvard to begin a new curriculum concerning the governmental and linguistic problems of certain Far Eastern areas...
...spent the last year at Harvard. He plans another year of study here in preparation for a forthcoming book on the political significance of Chinese geography. His lectures this month are held at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, 2 Divinity Avenue, and are illustrated with slides. They begin at 8:15 o'clock and will continue for the next three Mondays...
...officers formed the influential Order of the Cincinnati, but there was no political bloc of the veterans' rank & file. Not until 1818 did needy ex-enlisted men begin receiving pensions-of $8 per month. Another ten years passed before all Continentals who had served to the war's end were pensioned to the full amount of their service pay. Thus the post-Revolution U.S. began the persisting practice of waiting until the veteran has become a gaffer before giving him effective help...