Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just cannot believe there is an intelligent American with the mentality of the Wilmington (N.C.) Morning Star editor. We in the Philippines look upon America as our great teacher in democracy. When we come across things like this, we begin to doubt whether our American books and American teachers told us everything...
...just to quash rumors that Juliana might abdicate, it was announced that the heir presumptive, Princess Beatrix, 18, would begin studies this term at Leiden University, where her mother won an honorary doctorate in literature and philosophy at 21. These matters settled, Juliana and Bernhard flew off to Corfu for a holiday with the Greek royal family. Their loyal subjects (who have been told very little of all that has gone on) were assured by an Amsterdam newspaper that for Juliana and Bernhard "this interlude in the land of classical harmony and joy of living" would mark "the equally harmonious...
...cosmic questions-How did the universe begin? How will it end?-British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle had a pair of startling answers: It had no beginning and will have no end. Instead, according to Hoyle. the universe is a steady state that is infinite in space and time and has a constant density maintained by the creation of new matter to compensate for the thinning of matter by expansion (TIME, Sept...
...Jordan." The dictator's remarks were made with an assurance that his demeanor did not fully match. This was a heady game he was playing: one man against 22 of the world's most powerful nations−though he counted on having some on his side to begin with, and others if he played his cards right...
...Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy dared to go deeper, brought in a well from between 7,000 ft. and 8,000 ft. But McCarthy did not follow through. Not until lesser-known Wildcatter E. C. Scurlock brought home a deep payload late in 1954 did the Pierce Junction boom begin...