Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing had come hard to Ralph Waldo Emerson. "The sun has not yet illuminated the arch of heaven nor begun to display his brilliant beams," he wrote to an aunt in 1816, in a letter just found tucked away in the floor of an old Concord, Mass. house. "This I suppose is the time to feel inspired and this the time I shall improve to write to you." He finally had to wind it up, because "night with sable wings approaches and compels me to bid adieu." He was 13 at the time...
...manufacturing groups studied, the Survey found that nine were continuing an unbroken uptrend begun in 1945, but 17 had shown declines for six months or more. In the downtrend group were automobile tires, truck-trailers, water heaters, oil burners, glass containers, shoes, and women's and children's clothing (see Textiles...
...closely resemble the English. A teacher at Pennsylvania's Ursinus College had made a frequency count of Vergil's vocabulary. The chairman of the State University of Iowa's classics department, one of her associates, had made a frequency count of syntax forms. Miss Geweke had begun to write the lessons that would best prepare pupils for Vergil. She had hoped to try out her theories in 30 public & private school systems, has already found 52 willing...
...lesser quiz-bangs, primly pointed to its own "longstanding policy of stressing the entertainment, educational and news values of its programs . . ." WOR, key station for Mutual, another leader in the giveaway field (Queen for a Day, Three for the Money), solemnly assented: "The giveaway craze and large prizes have begun to overshadow the entertainment value of programs. Such overemphasis is not healthy for radio...
...chance to achieve his frustrated desire, turned in enough material (mostly gripes about the hospital) to fill three issues. The editorial board of fellow patients suggested that he try gathering some hospital news. He became the paper's religious reporter. To the satisfaction of the doctors, he has begun talking constructively about his own problems-the first step toward possible recovery...