Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual wave of post-season honors for football players has begun again, and in the first day's total, Howle Houston, Emil Drvaric, and Nick Rodis were named to All-squads...
...begun his first, living there while Mrs. Roosevelt moved out of the White House...
During her Broadway apprenticeship, back in 1918, Tallulah was regarded as a "most beautiful girl." Her hair came down to her knees, thick as a cloak. She had not begun to drink or smoke. ("I was a completely good girl in those days.") "But she was never simple," says Actress Estelle Winwood, one of her oldest friends. "She was as sophisticated then...
...movies had begun to talk, and Tallulah returned to the U.S. to get a word in. Under a $100,000 Paramount contract, she played bad girls redeemed by the love of a good man in a series of pictures with titles that now sound like perfumes ( Tarnished Lady, My Sin, Faithless). The pictures gave off a bad scent, and Paramount dropped her option. Her movie career was a failure until Alfred Hitchcock cast her in Lifeboat (1944), which won the New York film critics' award for the best actress' performance of the year. Her only movie since...
Many a professional specialist had begun to wonder whether the Dow theory, a useful barometer in less stormy times, had not outlived its usefulness. Nowadays the market is subject to more unpredictable political and economic pressures and plain frights than it felt in the years when the theory was being worked out and "proved." For example, only a month after the theory signaled a bull market in May, the Berlin blockade sent prices skittering down again, although business got better & better...