Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, this is the gloomy picture: less than three month's later, Housing Expediter Creedon's staff has informed him that no more than 825,000 homes will be begun this year, and if existing federal controls and aids are removed only 750,000 will be built. Passed by the Senate last year but pigeonholed in the House, the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill is once more running the gauntlet of Congressional consideration, this time with the same House members that led its defeat last year now completely running the show at their end of the Capitol...
...collegiate overcoat and topped with a fine head of gray-streaked hair parted in the middle. His bearing is impressive and authoritative, and he is ready to tackle any sort of knotty problem which may be baffling his underlings. To cite one instance out of many, a proctor had begun to suspect an examinee of resorting to a crib sheet, but wasn't sure enough to make an issue of it. Mr. Leonard took over masterfully by casually asking the suspect to move to another seat: in the process of moving the tell-tale slip of paper fell...
...Rodzinski's musical sterility (to continue a conceit begun by Rodzinski when he described Stokowski's conducting as "sexual") has time & again made the normally oppressive U.S. Rubber Co.'s "Science Talks" over the air seem the height of esthetic cultivation by comparison. Thus my joy was unbounded when Rodzinski "resigned." This joy was snuffed out, however, by the announcement that he would pilot the Chicago Symphony next season...
Opened Door. In 48 hours, the black gangrenous foot had begun to turn pink. Soon the patient could wriggle his toes. As Wirtschafter tried his new treatment on other patients, news of his discovery spread quickly through other Los Angeles hospitals. When Dr. Harry Goldblatt, world-famed high blood pressure expert, came to look, he said: "This is one of the two most exciting moments of my life...
...from 24 to 35 Boston settlement houses "which have traditionally relied on University students for a large part of their staffs are now seriously hindered by a lack of personnel," Richard W. Kislik '48, Chairman of the Phillips Brooks House Social Service Committee yesterday announced that the committee has begun a drive to enlist 300 students for settlement house work...