Word: begun
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...searching does not seem out of place. While the percentage of our classmates destined for corporate cubicles certainly may have dwindled in these depressed economic times, the concern that Faust articulated last year retains its currency. In fact, without the plentiful powerful and high-paying positions Harvard students had begun to presume as their birthright awaiting them upon graduation, these once merely academic and existential concerns have assumed a new urgency...
Where has the political opposition gone? Ever since its early division between Federalists and anti-Federalists, the United States has prided itself on possessing a two-party system. Lately, however, this model has begun to seem outdated—while the Democrats enjoy their new place in office, a serious challenge from the GOP is nowhere to be found. A piece in The Economist captured the current vacuum best, reporting that the Republican party is “about as popular as celibacy among 18-30-year-olds...
...peaceful coexistence.Prior to Khrushchev’s first visit to the U.S. during the previous month, Soviets had been prohibited from leaving the USSR. The student exchange programs—such as those in which the student delegates participated—demonstrated that the iron curtain had, indeed, begun to fall.In fact, 1959 was also the first year that the U.S. was allowed to host a trade and cultural fair in the Russian capital. However, the fact that the way in which the countries chose their delegation participants differed suggested that political tension and strong feelings of ideological superiority hadn?...
...time Szanton graduated, the University had embarked upon two large-scale constructions to make room for the arts at Harvard—the Loeb Drama Center, begun in 1959 and completed in 1960 and the Carpenter Center, planned in 1959 and completed in 1963. These two projects, part of an overall plan to increase the presence of art on campus, gave student artists the space to thrive. But as the school built homes for the arts in brick and concrete, some students feared that creativity itself, under the University’s watch, would be rigidified...
...defeat was followed by two more, with Harvard placing second at both the ECAC and Ivy League Championships. Navy got the best of the Crimson, 703.5-512.5, in a rematch at ECACs, while the Tigers outswam Harvard once again at Ivies, 1663.5-1311.5.Even with these losses, the Crimson had finally begun to swim to its full potential, and act as a single unit.“Our main improvement was coming together,” Guernsey said. “Definitely by the end of the season, we were one team with one goal. I think that?...