Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear communication in his abstruse field happened whether he was talking to a packed lecture hall or to a single listener. He would grin, draw a few symbols on the blackboard, say a few simple words and grin again. Then, little by little, a new kind of light would begin to shine on the most difficult subject...
...press quickly picked up the story, but not without an argument. U.P. Staff Correspondent H. D. Quigg wondered whether his lordship would prefer to have the Gettysburg Address begin: "Eighty-seven years ago our fathers founded here a new nation." And what about the about, asked Quigg, in the Biblical phrase, "And the glory of the Lord shone round about them"? But Lord Conesford stuck to his guns. Last week, invited to appear on CBS-TV's The Last Word, he landed in the U.S. to continue the attack...
...FIFO-first in, first out-which computes the year's profits on the basis of the first stock bought during the year. Though FIFO is less advantageous during inflation, when costs are steadily rising, many stores prefer it because it guards them against higher taxes should inventory costs begin to fall. Companies cannot switch back and forth; Government permission is needed to do so. Gambling on continued price rises, Macy's asked permission to use LIFO in 1942. The Government refused, but in 1947 allowed a Baltimore department store, Hutzler Brothers, to file under LIFO after the store...
...provide the last breather for the varsity wrestlers this afternoon before they enter the toughest phase of their schedule, meets against Springfield, Princeton, Brown, and Yale. Penn has won only one of its eight matches, losing the rest by margins of from 14 to 34 points. The match will begin at 2 p.m., on the I.A.B. mats...
Rugby and Religion. The Reverend J.R.W. Stott has been packing them in, packing their souls, and packing them out. Tonight's lecture. "Where Will It End," is a climax of his series of speeches entitled, "What Think You Of Christ?" "Where Did It Begin...