Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Leave-. In the African colonies, agitation for self-government has begun to discover both leaders and obstacles. A native Gold Coast spokesman, Robert Kweku Atta Gardiner, said recently in a New York speech...
...scientists, who seldom used to worry much about such things, have begun to wonder whether they have the social vision to see beyond their warheads. This week Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the nation's top scientific school, welcomed a man who might do something about that feeling. For the first time in its 81 years, M.I.T. picked as dean of stu dents not a scientist but a minister...
Warning to Optimists. In 1939 he identified himself with the party's "liberal" wing by an extraordinary speech which marked the close of the Great Purge begun in 1934. He said...
Blood & Beans. In Mexico food is more of a problem than it was 35 years ago in the time of Dictator Porfirio Diaz. Since then, farm production has risen 23%, population 60%. The bloody revolution begun by mild little Francisco Madero in 1910 cracked the feudal system and released three-quarters of a million peasants in mud-floor serfdom from the grip of a few hundred landowning families. But the revolutionaries themselves lived on and despoiled the country, which never had enough farmland (only 12% potentially arable...
...painted the jfresco, was damp to start with. To make matters worse, Da Vinci, the eternal experimenter, invented special tempera pigments for the fresco, and they proved to be less durable than those then commonly in use. Even in Da Vinci's own lifetime the Last Supper had begun to fade, and as early as 1556 Art Historian Vasari complained that it had become "a muddle of blots...