Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arawe lies 290 wild, rugged miles from Rabaul and its broad harbor. At Arawe, the. General is not in position for a practicable overland march. But he is in a key spot to hasten the process of isolating Rabaul, a process begun by strong seaand-air attacks in the past two months...
...enemy the drumbeat cadence of the attack could mean only one thing. Now that the Gilberts had fallen, the Marshalls were next. The stern, long march to Tokyo had barely begun. But it had been started...
...history of modern string quartet playing might be said to have begun in 1902. That year, partially deaf Edward J. de Coppet, senior partner of the Manhattan brokerage house of De Coppet & Doremus, decided to subsidize a group of four players who would make quartet playing their exclusive and full-time occupation. De Coppet, a fanatical music lover, gathered his quartet to practice in peace on his Swiss estate which he called Villa Flonzaley, after a small brook that flowed through the grounds. When they came out of hiding as the Flonzaley Quartet, the musical world soon found their playing...
...Again, He's Irish-Well they might. Before the Reuters row had even begun to subside, U.S. newspapers were scooped again...
...House a similar campaign against the industry's bill was begun by Texas' Sam Russell, who said he had been high-pressured by every insurance man in his district...