Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After four years active research in optics contributing to the war effort, the Amateur Telescope Makers Society of Boston is returning to the University's Observatory for its regular bi-weekly meetings. The Society, numbering more than 100 members, is resuming work on a 20-inch telescopic mirror begun...
...crown fitted uneasily, and nine months after the U.S. had cried out against the Spanish man hunt in Cuba, the U.S. man hunt in the Philippines began. It was a drawn-out, costly, tragic struggle. Long before the islands were fully possessed, a free-the-Philippines campaign had begun...
...Phillies had begun the season like their stumblebum predecessors by losing 24 times in 32 games. Their new manager, onetime Yankee Ben Chapman, tried everything: he forbade any player even to mention the word cellar, fired three veterans on the team who couldn't shake off that old Philly feeling. His toughest self-assignment: patting pitchers on the back when they got knocked out of the box. Ben Chapman himself had changed since he got kicked out of organized baseball for a year three years ago for slugging an umpire...
...many shortages would disappear within three or four months. An impressive flow of goods was already coming from the nation's factories; shipments of goods in the first four months of 1946 were 40% above 1941 in value, 10% above 1941 in volume. And the outpouring had just begun...
Despite this light disclaimer (written on April Fool's Day), Lincoln appears to have begun the affair at a full, rolling boil-declaring that he would "catch, tie and marry" the lady. She was 30, he 29 and a member of the Illinois legislature. For about 18 months he continued at a simmer-traipsing over to see her at her sister's house, begging her to "say something that will please me, for really I have not been pleased since I left you." But he ended the affair tepidly with a negative proposal...