Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshman intramural basketball competition will begin Tuesday, November 30, Intramural Athletic Director Dolph Samborski announced yesterday...
...result, the White House social season was canceled, and the President prepared to move out of the executive mansion on his return from Key West. He would begin his second term in office in historic Blair House,* a 124-year-old, four-story yellow stucco house on Pennsylvania Avenue, which the State Department bought six years ago to house distinguished visitors from abroad. Cheek by jowl with it is Lee House, which the President will also take over. Workmen are already cutting out a connecting doorway...
...means. He runs an undertaking business, smokes big cigars, campaigns against Perón, and races automobiles. In Buenos Aires one midnight last month, Domingo stepped on the starter of his 1939 Chevrolet and waited for the Gran Premio de la America del Sur to begin. So did 137 other drivers * in their Fords, Chevies and a sprinkling of Plymouths, Nashes and Buicks. At the signal, they roared off into the night...
...mechanics, seven bystanders), left nearly 100 drivers stranded along the road, practically ruined 138 good automobiles. What cars were left would now be shipped to Lima, Peru, where the second and shorter section of the Gran Premio, back over the mountains to Luján, near Buenos Aires, would begin in two weeks...
...board of the Associated Harvard Clubs meets in its Commonwealth Avenue headquarters to hand down a "yes" or a "no" or a "maybe" on the Saltonstall Committee's choice of a University War Memorial. If the answer is "yes," it will be final and irrevocable, and workmen will soon begin setting the $70,000 inscription into the walls of Memorial Church. And if the answer is "yes," the gentlemen who head the Harvard Clubs will have violated the democratic principle upon which their organization is founded, and upon which Harvard should choose a memorial to its World War II dead...