Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debut at her mother's Long Island estate. She said she was going to France instead. Said Pamela: "The idea used to be that you never went out at all until your debut, and then it was something to look forward to. But now people start going out when they're twelve, and it's a farce...
...Russians were building up a huge new German "police" force (see FOREIGN NEWS). The five Brussels Treaty nations, plus the U.S. and Canada, were getting ready to bring out into the open some plans for a North Atlantic Defense Pact (see CANADA)-under which the U.S. and Canada might start a new flow of military lend-lease to Western Europe. Otherwise, matters were on dead center for a few days...
...vague and glittering generalities if they did. But last week, when news dispatches from Paris reported that Western Union countries (Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg) were ready to join Canada and the U.S. in a North Atlantic Security Pact, Canadians sat up with a start, asked to be told what was going...
...mind and another man's money. Comparing the scholarly output of Germany, England, France and the U.S., Abraham Flexner deplored the "wild, uncontrolled and uncritical expansion" in U.S. universities. Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld gave Flexner $5,000,000 to start a place where a few scholars could just "sit and think." Scientist Vannevar Bush was skeptical: "Well, I can see how you could tell whether they were sitting...
...affair will start at 10 p.m. Friday evening in the Dillon Gymnasium and will continue until 2 a.m. Saturday: No tickets will be sold at the door. Students who place orders with the CRIMSON earlier this week may now pick up their tickets...