Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illegal Trial? So the climax came to what was probably the longest criminal trial in U.S. history. It had begun on Jan. 17. For the defense: 35 witnesses, 429 exhibits. For the Government: 15 witnesses, 332 exhibits. The record: 5,000,000 words of testimony covered 21,157 pages. The cost: to the defense, at least $250,000; to the Government, some...
Donald M. Landis '50, business manager of the book, announced last night that Harvard Studio has begun work on the portraits early this year in order to have them completed by the end of next month. Eliot and Winthrop Houses are next on the photographers list, and other Houses will follow in an order yet to be determined...
...ball to a halfback who smacked Army's line for two yards. When the players unpiled, blond, 188-lb. Chuck Ortmann, Michigan's passing ace, was lugged off on a stretcher. That was the first omen of calamity. Then it seemed as though the big stadium had begun falling...
...biggest manhunts in U.S. history was begun this week by the American Diabetes Association: a search for 1,000,000 Americans who may have diabetes and don't know it. Prompt detection, diet and possibly insulin injections can stave off the severer phases of the disease...
...Moreton, 42, earns $80 a week editing the house organ of a big company, reads good books, listens to good music on the radio, and has lately begun to think aloud. His wife Peggy, 41, is a trim little Irish woman whose scruples about birth control have lately begun to complicate their marriage. His children, a daughter 18 and a son 16, are a smart, self-possessed pair of youngsters who answer respectfully when he speaks to them, make moderated replies to his bitter wisecracks, and seem to him to have recently become large, mature and strange...