Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What does he have that the public wants? To begin with, as he says himself, "there are certain things there physically that I can't help: height, looks, youth." Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has written about his ability to mesmerize an audience, while Singer Diahann Carroll says in a more lyrical vein: "From the top of his head right down that white shirt, he's the most beautiful man I ever set eyes...
...trip to London for medical help, the doctor and Anna are held as hostages. Not since Faulkner's Temple Drake was held captive in a Memphis brothel has a novelist contrived such powerful scenes of terror. While the key gangster gives Chance a going over, the Arabs begin to riot in the town. Buildings are bombed, the gangster's house is attacked by the mob; and while Chance fights his love for Anna and takes his physical beating, he fights the tougher battle of a religious man trying to find the grace that will keep him spiritually sane...
...rewarded, for both 1946-47 and 1957-58 turned in high sunspot peaks. Donald H. Menzel, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, and long a specialist in solar research, agreed that the Sun cooperated beautifully during its intensive examination. In fact the sun could not wait for IGY to begin on July 1, 1957. On June 28 a huge flare erupted on the Sun's surface and hurled gas many thousands of miles into space. Two days later the Earth's magnetic field jumped erratically, radio waves blacked out over both poles, and northern and southern lights illuminated the skies...
Five Harvard professors returned last week from Russia, where they made preliminary plans for an exchange program with the University of Leningrad. "We hope the program will begin next fall," said Merle Fainsod, professor of Government and spokesman of the group...
...largest in the history of the University, was donated by Miss Sanda Countway of Brookline, a lifelong resident in the area who is interested in medicine and medical research. Because of the gift, construction for the new library will begin a year from June, and the building will be ready for occupancy by the 1961 Fall Term...