Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been appointed to the 1945 Album's Executive Committee and work has already begun in assembling the material for the yearbook, which is to be published in February. Class election of the staff members was suspended this year in order to speed work on the book...
Endurance at Salerno. This point was the area of Naples. To the south, in the Calabrian peninsula, where the British Eighth army had begun the landings, the Germans' chief effort was to extract what troops and planes they could. When, on the seventh day, the British arrived to take the great port of Taranto, the Germans had deserted it to confused, volubly embarrassed Italians. As the British marched eastward to Brindisi on the Adriatic, they met only the rear guard of a retreating German Panzer division...
Roosters. A new way to produce fatter, tastier cockerels, to make even tough old roosters succulent, had been discovered by Biochemist Frederick W. Lorenz of the University of California. His method: the injection of a synthetic sex hormone. Lorenz had begun by wondering why a hen grows fat when it starts laying eggs. He proved it was because the female sex hormone, estrogen, increases the amount of fat in the blood. Lorenz then hit on the idea of giving estrogen (available in a cheap, synthetic form called diethylstilbestrol) to fatten up male fowl...
...doesn't take any startling deduction to predict the whole plot of this movie 15 minutes after it has begun. It's the same old flimsy cliche having for its well-worn theme the reform of a draft-dodging gambler by a pretty little Max Factor creation. Of course, all the bad men, recalcitrant grandfathers who get indignant about the family honor, and bungling detectives are part of the trappings...
Another postwar argument had begun...