Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cycle was begun with the Revolution. Hollis, on the request of General Washington, became a barracks for the hard-pressed regulars of the siege of Boston. The thirty-odd rooms were filled to the very rafters with men in coonskin who drilled in the Yard and attended sermons on spots that corresponded to the Law School and Sever. Hollis became a symbol of Harvard's contribution to the effort of the new nation. When the men left, they left a sign, which has become a plate, recording the service rendered by Thomas Hollis' gift...
...more widely circulated American publications start on an educating crusade such as TIME has begun in a very modest way, they should . . . bring to most Americans an understanding of the other peoples of the world that may vanquish intolerance. And, thus, your nation will lead the world in providing the antidote to these periodic growing pains such as afflict the globe now. After all, they have never given education a chance. . . . Anyway, thanks for making a start...
...only begun to make the U.S. front pages-and every trickling drop of news had been squeezed out of U.S. and British diplomats despite the deepest kind of over-my-dead-body reluctance...
...parasite was actually Ernie's imperfect twin, the result of incomplete division of embryonic cells before Ernie was born. Imperfect twinning sometimes results in scarcely noticeable effects (a baby may be born with a small tumor containing teeth, hair, etc., showing that a twin was begun but not completed), or in Siamese twins...
...Caldwell observes that the recent epidemic of wrecks has begun to make railroads consider electronics. He thinks tomorrow's roads will have...