Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden, doctor, my ears begin to buzz. The room swirls around me. My eyes jerk and I can't keep them still. I reel, and if I don't catch hold of something I fall to the floor. Sometimes I faint. I break into a cold clammy sweat. I feel nauseated. And, doctor, I can't help vomiting. These attacks have been coming over me more frequently. I used to be able to hear perfectly clearly in spite of the buzzing in my ears. But now I am getting deaf. And, doctor, I'm afraid I'm going...
Whether or not Bunny Greenwood was the smartest boy in the world, there was no doubt that he was a topnotch prodigy. He did not begin to talk until he was 20 months old but when he did, according to his mentors, he rattled off complete, grammatical sentences. By his second birthday, with help from his letter blocks, none from his parents, he had taught himself to read. Bunny's most startling exploit occurred shortly after that when he sat down at a piano, worked out a system of musical notation, using a different number for each note. Today...
...Year Plan occurs this quiet, profoundly significant comment: "The legal and administrative compulsion to economic activity under penalty of capital and other punishment is so closely associated with the Soviet system of planning that a study of the U. S. S. R. economy at the present time should actually begin with an explanation of the criminal code. . . . The unusual duties which devolve nowadays on the Soviet public prosecutor may be judged from a statement made by M. Vyshinsky, the public prosecutor [at Moscow]: 'In the struggle for the realization of the harvest, one of the principal places by rights belongs...
...request of the Columbia Broad-casting System, the Band will broadcast a half-hour program over a nation-wide network from the ballroom of the Hotel Copley Plaza in Boston tomorrow afternoon. The concert is scheduled to begin at 2.30 o'clock...
Pucksters from the houses are scheduled to begin playing league games as soon as the holidays are over, according to a schedule released by Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of intramural athletics. Two rinks, one of which will be reserved for the house games, are to be constructed on Soldiers Field during the holidays...