Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the monsoon season coming on, Annex sports have began the annual rush for the warmth of the gym. Club basketball practice has already been underway for a week, with sessions Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, in the Radcliffe gym. The foremost of the indoor enthusiasts have also begun to warm up the bowling alloys...
Workmen on the $3,000,000 project are completing plastering and installation of the stacks, are well along in laying the floors, and have begun painting...
...press going to profit by its lesson? Already, here & there., the process of rationalizing the error had begun. And the soreheads were getting in their licks. Wrote the New York Daily News's John O'Donnell (who had first asked to have the paper's lady astrologist assigned to the Washington bureau) : "O.K., they were all wrong (most definitely, including this writer) on the Truman election. So what? So were the voters who elected Truman." Sneered George Sokolsky: "Truman gave out during the campaign, becoming boisterous and vulgar. Some say that he made votes for himself that...
...there is one point that might bother him a little. And this is the fact that the spiral had already begun to twist into a conservative period in 1946, according to several of his own standards for determining such things; so now it has either doubled back or jumped way up ahead, depending on how you want to look at it. And no matter how you look at it, to change the metaphor back again, pendulums don't change their minds...
...search for the facts might have turned up some interesting moral issues-or at least some effective melodrama. Instead, there is only a sort of slow-motion cops & robbers chase in an uncertain direction. By the time Milland's search is patly ended, even the realistic backgrounds have begun to take on a phony look...