Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vishinsky had offered the Russian plain in his first speech before this session of the U.N. in September, after he had belabored the U.S. and Britain for trying to start an atomic war. It proposed: 1) that the assembly condemn "preparations for war" being made by the two western nations; 2) that the assembly outlaw the atomic bomb as a weapon; and 3) that the assembly request the Big Five (U. S., Britain, France, China, and Russia) to make a new non-aggression pact...
Disadvantage at the Start...
...first job. After all, Business School education, intensive as it may be, is developing the "able business administrator," not the salesman or assistant buyer. But while the corporation training programs can and do give non-Business School graduates a bit of a boost at the start, Harvard education can pay off at promotion time. Surveys have shown that the Business School man, even without the training in routines, isn't at all slow in adjusting himself to his first job, thanks to his indirect study of business as a whole...
...start of the second world war, degrees-awarded figures, starting with the 33 given out in 1910, had cumulated to a total of 7,757. During the war, however, the School cut out all degree awarding, choosing rather to lend its full experience to the war effort...
...Railroad Museum, placed in the tiled-floor room when the Library was built, doesn't attempt to deal with the complete history of railroading. But it contains examples of rails dating back to the start of steam transportation, as well as exhibits like ancient passes and valuable sketches of actual engines...