Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creed. In fact, the Communists have organized groups in every nation of the globe - a worldwide movement. ... If a strong, free-enterprise America wishes to combat this worldwide movement and survive, if it wishes to compete economically with centrally directed economic planning on a colossal scale, which has hardly begun as yet to operate, then TIME magazine owes it to the America it believes in to present facts, studies, analyses, objective reporting, and soundly based mature conclusions rather than the stream of adolescent sneers and verbal spitballs in which TIME is now indulging and which does your competent journal...
...great experiment, abolishing a 400-year-old custom, was begun in the Philippines last week. TIME Correspondent Bill Gray was there to report...
Enemy opposition to the Superfort attacks, while still stout, has begun to show signs of weakening. Flak remains heavy, but not uniformly so; fighter opposition on most recent assaults has been light. But in the drive to knock out Japan's industry, the B-29s will now face a new enemy: weather. Between June and September, eastern Japan's rainiest season, the air will be warm, moist and thick with clouds. Inevitably, more bombing will have to be done by instruments and will be correspondingly less accurate, but there will be no lightening of the bomb loads...
...guinea pigs at Stanford University, streptomycin kept infection down to 5.8% of a theoretically possible 100% infection. (The amount of t.b. a guinea pig has is determined by autopsy.) Other guinea pigs, given tuberculosis bacilli but no streptomycin, developed 67% infection. Trials on a few human patients have just begun...
...little startled at the furor he caused on personal expeditions in the capital. Last week, when he hustled out to open his safety deposit box at a Washington bank, he virtually tied up noon-hour traffic in the street outside. But his informality, his habit of early rising had begun to seem natural. So did the folksy atmosphere which visitors imparted to White House anterooms. Newsmen now rated callers as OFs (Old Friends) and PRs (Payers of Respects...