Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cremation furnace was running day & night and its chimneys never ceased smoking. The capacity of its five compartments was 1,400 daily. . . . The Germans had begun to build an annex when the Red Army arrived...
More than 1,000,000 Londoners had been evacuated (more thousands, who could afford it, had gone to the country on their own) and the second million of evacuees had begun to go. One result was a glut of food on shop counters. Another result: no more queues in front of shops. Food shopping, which could have been a pleasure at last, was now a danger...
...last week in danger of being blown to marble bits. The Germans were reported using it as an artillery observation post. Unlike the treasure-strewn city of Florence, 49 miles away, Pisa had not been declared an open city. Other jeopardized treasures of Pisa, beside the 179-foot tower begun in 1174, included...
...white marble Tuscan-Romanesque Cathedral, begun in the 11th Century...
...anti-Picasso blast ready for the first reporter who came his way. Roared he: "The Society's role is clear: to serve those trying to preserve European cultural . . . domination. . . . Behind this show are dealers. . . . This is proved by the fact that [the Society's] activities were begun with a non-American artist of overwhelming prestige...