Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Taft had steam up. Last week, with Congress just about ready to quit, he pulled the whistle. This week the Taft campaign train would begin to roll, and Ohio's plugging Senator would be off on what he hoped was the right track to the Republican presidential nomination...
University wide sculling competition in six classes will begin in two weeks, Coach Blake Dennson announced last night, as a promise of relief from summer ennui on the Charles waterfront...
Following his lead, Washington last week asked ten fellow members* on the Far Eastern Commission to begin work on a peace treaty for Japan. To speed up the negotiations the U.S. wanted to sacrifice the Big Power veto, decide treaty issues a two-thirds majority. The Russians might not participate on those terms...
...earnest voice over a classroom lectern, or heard him read aloud a favorite poet in his sun-patched garden. They knew him as an erect and kindly man who loved all that was good in men & books. Sometimes, over milk and cakes in his garden, he would begin a quiet discussion of Milton or Sainte-Beuve, and would soon become so excited by a point that his chair would scarcely hold him. But his natural dignity never deserted him. When reading a poem aloud, he would sometimes come upon a passage so affecting that he could not read...
...lecture by Lawrence B. Adler, of Indiana University, on "What Makes Stars Shine?" will begin the program at 8 o'clock. If weather permits, guests will then be able to look at the heavens through telescopes...