Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty minutes after the cobra struck, Mrs. Wiley was in Long Beach Municipal Hospital. The only antivenom serum there was from North American snakes, and useless for cobra bites. Her throat muscles had begun to contract ominously. Mrs. Wiley, now almost unconscious, shook her head hopelessly. She was put into an iron lung, but it was too late; the paralysis was creeping through her chest. When it reached her heart muscles, an hour and forty minutes after she had been bitten, Grace Wiley died...
...struck him in the neck. He was able to mumble a question: he asked if his briefcase was safe. It was. He was taken to the Policlinico, Rome's largest hospital and the only one not affected by a slowdown strike of doctors, nurses and attendants which had begun that morning as a protest against low wages. One of Italy's most famous surgeons. Dr. Pietro Valdoni. worked over Togliatti for 2½ hours while Signorina Iotti and Togliatti's wife, white-haired Rita Montagna, stood in the doorway. Togliatti's Socialist ally, Pietro Nenni. wandered...
Last winter, Thurman feels, the experiment really came of age. With some misgivings he had gone to serve as visiting lecturer in philosophy and religion at the University of Iowa. When he returned he found that the congregation had stopped calling it "Fellowship Church" or "the church" and had begun to call it "our church." Says he: "Now comes the temptation to say, 'We have a very nice atmosphere here-let's freeze...
...Oilman Harry F. Sinclair and the Cities Service Co. Under Sinclair, as chairman, it went after new oil leases, built up its known oil reserves from 25,000,000 barrels in 1937 to 220,000,000 last year. Investors were betting that its reserves had just begun to climb. In the last two months its stock went from...
...sold $6,500,000 worth of houses-at an average price of $14,000, an average profit of about 10%-and borrowed more than $5,000,000 to keep on building. Such narrow margins permit no dillydallying: before last week's 105-house sale, Liberty had already begun to lay the foundations for 47 houses in an adjoining area; they would be ready in about four months...