Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle-of-the-roader, Lecomte de Noüy, who was a brilliant scientist, adduced scientific proof that human life cannot have begun spontaneously, that there must be a Supreme Being. Since this evidence points to His being our Maker, why not attribute to Him capability for a loftier point of view than any of those possessed by man? Is it possible that He created him to love, and that the knowledge intelligent men of science have amassed is intended to be only a tool to that...
...escape the Communists' well-executed envelopment, Nationalist troops began to evacuate Nanking. Three days after the Red offensive had begun, they streamed out of the capital, weary and disorganized, along the dry brown roads leading through fields of green vegetables and yellow rape, southward and eastward toward the coastal cities of Shanghai and Hangchow and the rugged mountains of Fukien and Kiangsi...
...student who was privileged last year to take Professor Theodors Spencer's course in Shakespeare. I would like to add a word of endorsement to the action of the Committee of Faculty Members who have begun raising money for the Theodore Spencer Memorial Fund...
Starting the game today are the standbys with which Coach Dick Meryman has begun the past two games. Attack: Yost, Schaffer, and Baldwin. Midveld: Al Sawyer, Rip Lynch, and Pete Brooke: Defense: Tom Brager, Bill Spence, and Ned Maroni. Goalie will be Dunk McCallum...
...daylight saving time had begun one day earlier, Harvard might have won its golf match with MIT Saturday. As it was, darkness closed in at 6:50 p.m. before three tied games could be played off, and the match ended in a 3 1/2 to 3 1/2 deadlock...