Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists in China welcomed war because it hastened the undermining of society that Western progress had begun. The Bolton report describes the process...
...knew him as a stooped and chivalrous gentleman, who walked with mincing little steps, and never appeared on the lecture platform except in morning coat and striped trousers. He always claimed to hate lecturing ("Why do we do it? Why do we do it?") But scarcely had a term begun than students were scrambling for seats in his classroom. "Go down to Q in lilac time, in lilac time, in lilac time," an undergraduate journal once advised. And when, during World War I, he took over a local pulpit for a few Sundays, his church was so crowded that...
...retail trade. His unwillingness to buy overpriced houses had caused new construction to fall off 12 %-more than seasonal-in October. And many high-priced houses had had "for sale" signs on them for months. Some housing materials might soon be cheaper. The lumber industry, whose record production had begun to back up in the yards, had already trimmed wholesale prices; yet production was still ahead of sales...
...movie box office has not yet completely lost the land-office look it had during wartime. But moviemen suspect that the boom is over. How soon a real slump will come is something that fretful Hollywood has begun to fret about...
Though the job of revaluating all the commodities will not be finished until mid-1950, it has already begun to make a difference. The final report on the old weekly index last week showed that wholesale prices had dropped 0.1% for the week ending Nov. 13. Next day, the first published report on the new index, which covered the week ending Nov. 16, showed that prices were...