Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interchanged them, coloring with different colors each house and its bee for identification purposes. He then took the bees ... to a point three kilometers from home . . . When they were released at a predetermined hour, a watcher clocked them back in ten minutes. Though in one case the house was begun and in the other finished and stored with honey, the bees returned, not to their own work, but to the exact spot on which their house had been...
...cost of paying them had jumped to more than $17 million a month and had all but broken the bank at Sacramento. Last week California newspapers and businessmen were engaged in an all-out battle to get the plan modified at a special election in November. They had begun in typical California style by hiring one Joe Robinson-the same professional signature collector who had raised the funds and gotten the signatures to put Proposition 4 over in the first place...
Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, had some good news from his physician: his left eye, snagged with a fishhook last April, had begun to regain its sight...
...15th Century, maintained that after St. Peter was crucified head downward in Nero's Circus, somewhere between 64 and 67 A.D., his body was buried in a pagan cemetery near by. Pious legend tells how Constantine, who built the first basilica over St. Peter's tomb (begun 323 A.D.), had Peter's remains embedded in 40 tons of molten bronze overlaid with 30 pounds of pure gold in the shape of a cross. But the tomb of St. Peter, presumably filled with earth to protect it from invading barbarians, has never been found. Some Protestant scholars have...
...mercy of the weather. They pointed out that potato raising is an expensive business, with all the costs of planting, harvesting and shipping to come out of their Government checks. But even the potato lobby in Washington (headed by Senator Owen Brewster) had realized that it had begun to overdo...