Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tolstoy, the Soviets decided, should be commemorated with a museum -the stationmaster's dwelling at Astapovo, where the great novelist died 35 years ago. After a last bitter quarrel with his wife, Tolstoy had stormed from his Yasnaya Polyana home, entrained for Moscow to begin life anew at 82; on the train he was seized with chills and fever, got off at Astapovo, succumbed to pneumonia a week later...
This week, the National League's first-place Cubs and four-games-behind Cardinals begin their final five-game showdown...
This week, in a long cream and gilt room of London's century-old, bombscarred Lancaster House, just west of St. James's Palace, the foreign ministers of the world's five great powers meet to begin writing the peace terms of World...
...House, Andrew J. May and Clifton A. Woodrum, chairmen respectively of the Military Affairs Committee and the Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy, announced that they would begin studying the problem before the snow flies. In the Senate. Elbert D. Thomas' Military Affairs Committee already had before it a bill, sponsored by Alabama's Lister Hill, which provided the mechanics for merger. It calls...
...favor: could he borrow Jacques Greber, inspector-general of city planning for France, and a world authority on garden architecture and public parks? De Gaulle agreed, and the Prime Minister called in reporters. He told them that Architect Greber would come to Canada at "the earliest sailing" to begin creating a beautiful national capital - a scheme that has long been one of the P.M.'s fondest dreams...