Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week-the sixth week of the strike-John L. had reached the crucial point in his strategy. His threat was coming true. Industrial stagnation had begun. Distress came in a rush...
...quite sure that I have been coming here every Monday morning at ten o'clock since the term began. A dark cloud blotted out the sun, and a cold sweat broke out on Vag's face. The very worst occurred to him immediately. Had the great revival begun; at this very moment was everyone else sleeping off the after effects of the new era's launching! Had he missed the first inning of the renascence! The Vagabond shuddered, turned his collar up, and with bowed head, slowly shuffled...
Juleps & Blue Grass. Ever since Aristides took the first Derby (worth $2,850) in 1875, the race has been an exasperating, unpredictable grind. It comes early in the year, before most three-year-old colts (and fillies) have really begun to find their adult racing stride. The distance is a tough mile and a quarter for youngsters used to six-and seven-furlong sprints, with perhaps a couple of mile or iVio races under their hoofs. The Derby has ruined more promising horses than it has made...
...second year of the American Civil War, Christopher Kuester and his family fled to the U.S. from the hardship and ever-menacing hunger of peasant life in Germany. The year the Franco-Prussian War broke out (1870), they reached Cass County, where a heavily, German population had begun to put down American roots...
...November 1944 Inventor Hogan unloaded half his duties at WQXR to devote more time to facsimile research begun some twelve years ago (TIME, Feb. 14, 1944). He got 20 broadcasters (twelve of them publishers) to put up $250,000 for his experiments. Now his finished product looks so good that General Electric is tooling up for production, expects units on the market within a year...