Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pigs. They took doorknobs off the doors and hinges off the windows." The Russians have learned, said Scott, that "if they are going to carry on this kind of a reparation policy they are going to be politically unpopular-and they are politically unpopular." Now, politically, "they have begun to retreat, to adopt a defensive attitude. They have got to this attitude . . . because of the pressure of internal economic forces in Russia and because of the pressure of a positive American and a positive British policy which have begun to make themselves felt in recent months...
Edric A. Weld's Constitutional Committee saw partial fruition of its fall work Wednesday night as the Student Council unanimously approved the committee's revised draft of the new Council Constitution. The investigation was begun last spring under the direction of Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '46, then president of the Council...
...Event. The fact was that as 1946 ended a recession in demand and prices had already begun. The break in stock and commodity markets could be explained in no other way. Nor could there be any other reason last month for one of the year's characteristic paradoxes: thousands of cut-price sales at the height of the greatest Christmas shopping spree in history. The real question was: How long and how bad would the decline...
...answer was just as tangled as the mixture of inflationary and deflationary forces which were at work as 1947 began. Light industries (clothing, processed food, etc.) were already cutting production, but heavy industries (autos, houses, etc.), which give the U.S. its economic red meat, had hardly begun to satisfy demand. The fact was that no one could say, with certainty, just how long or deep the recession would be. But a balance sheet could be cast up of what could make it comparatively slight, or comparatively deep...
...death, Shelley devoted himself to his poetry in Hampstead, in Leigh Hunt's cottage, where young Keats was a fellow visitor, and in Geneva, where the glamorous Lord Byron was a neighbor. The Napoleonic Wars were over; the long golden age of travel on the Continent had begun. Shelley's household abroad included not only Mary, whom he married, but her sister, Claire Claremont, one of Byron's cast-off mistresses. His scandalous behavior shocked London, and he never returned to the city after 1818, later writing stanzas beginning "Hell is a city much like London...