Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane drift toward the French border ten miles to the west. Instead, they saw a formation of planes, sweeping in at great altitude from the north. Seconds later, the burghers and their women and children ran for cover, shrieking. Terror bombing of undefended cities on the western front had begun...
...most talented moviemakers, feeling the cold hands of businessmen curbing their artistic impulses, had deserted him for Sir Alexander Korda (TIME, Nov. 17), who is concentrating on prestige films. Carol Reed (Odd Man Out) and Powell & Pressburger (Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) had already gone. British critics had begun to note the deterioration in Rank films; recent films, said the Sunday Times, ranged from "mediocre to ghastly...
Hockey practice has already begun, but enthusiasts must rise before sunrise as practice is hold from 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock in the morning at the Boston Skating Club. First game is on December...
...there are more than 30,000 now. This year, Canadian firms are spending $443 million on plant expansion-nearly 50% more than they spent in 1946. Most important, Canada has a wealth of iron. While deposits in the famed U.S. Mesabi range run steadily lower, Canada has begun to exploit vast new iron ore deposits in northern Ontario and on the Quebec-Labrador border...
...just another motion picture, we can measure it by its own individual merits--and we can find it wanting. Perhaps this feeling comes because Danny Kaye cannot seem to exude any of the real Mitty atmosphere; perhaps Kaye's species of facial-contortions-and-mouth-noises humor has begun to be rather tedious; perhaps slapstick is still, as always, a poor substitute for wit. Or perhaps the five dream-episodes, (three from the original story), funny as they may be, just don't completely redeem a routine "comedy-mystery"--routine even to the extent of including Boris Karloff...