Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glad they've begun asking riddles" said Alice; "I believe I can guess that." "Do you mean you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare. "Exactly so" said Alice. "Then you should say what you mean...
...would have from 1,500 to 1,700 calories a day (a little more than the U.S. zone of Germany). But housing would be as great a problem as it had been in the first confused winter of defeat. The work of rebuilding Japan from its rubble had barely begun. Reconstruction, hampered by lack of materials and tools, by strikes, and by requirements of the occupation force, stood at only 13%; industry at 30%. The occupation army required 90% of the cement and metal piping, much of the wiring, nearly all the tin and slate roofing. Allied dependents had taken...
...underscored a glacially slow but unmistakable trend in sect-ridden U.S. Protestantism. During the late 18th and first half of the 19th Centuries, Christianity in America tended to spatter in sectarian fragments like a spoonful of quicksilver dropped suddenly on marble. Now, in the 20th Century, U.S. Christians have begun to coalesce on their common Christian ground...
Internationalism Lie had known ever since his childhood. He grew up in an exciting era, when the battle for the receivership of the 19th Century had just begun. His mother's boardinghouse in Grorud, near Oslo, was cosmopolitan-Swedish, Finnish, Polish, German, Russian workers paid mother Lie 20? a day for room & board. In the evening, around the table, Trygve heard them talk of the Russo-Japanese War, of the abortive Russian revolution of 1905, of Norway's breakaway from Sweden, of syndicalism and the brotherhood of all workers. In those days Trygve Lie also acquired a faith...
...Nephew Jim. It looked good for a while last summer, but last week, the voters overturned it. It not only failed to elect Harry Truman's Enos Axtell, it lost its two best patronage jobs, including the presiding judgeship of the County Court (in which Harry Truman had begun his rise...