Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...measure also defers college students until they complete an academic year, while ROTC and Halloway Plan men may stay out until they begin their stipulated post-graduate service...
Once having discovered these two facts to be true, however, the Council seems promptly to have ignored them. For only just now--as the term draws almost to its close--are the most rudimentary preparations for the '49 Album beginning. And there has not yet been a whisper of planning for a Temporary Album Committee for the Class of 1950. Perhaps it is asking too much for the Council to begin acting on its own plans in so short a time after they have been published (a mere two months). But then perhaps it might be wiser if the Council...
...begin a backswing: address the ball with a little forward movement, or waggle, and let the backswing be a natural recoil from...
According to UNESCO's constitution, "wars begin in the minds of men . . ." If so, said Read, "they are not to be prevented by card indexes and encyclopedias, by documentary films and the circulation of lecturers...
This world unification may begin with violence (in the way, say, that Bismarck forcibly united the German states) or it may emerge from a compromise between the free enterprise of Western Christendom (the U.S.) and the totalitarian economy of the Byzantine orthodoxy (the U.S.S.R.). Only one thing can now prevent one world, says Toynbee: the destruction of all our major civilizations by the atom bomb...