Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pirogov and Barsov were eager to start learning about the western world. Shown a bathtub, they started to climb in with their shorts on; they thought it was a small swimming pool...
...while, it had looked as if James Caesar Petrillo and the record companies might kiss, make up and start turning out records again. But by last week the romance had cooled: Jimmy wanted too big a dowry from the record makers. All records now being released are either ten months old, imported, made secretly by anonymous musicians, or accompanied by choral groups, jew's-harps, kazoos, washboards and other instruments not considered musical by the Musicians' Union...
...Link thought he had a good start. He had been given a set of transcriptions by Bernie Shelton before Shelton was murdered last July (TIME, Aug. 9). They purportedly recorded a long chat between Bernie and a man who had asked him for a $25,000 bribe for an Illinois state's attorney to quash an assault indictment against Shelton...
Many doctors who vainly fought the act through the British Medical Association (TIME, March 1) remain unconvinced. The Labor Government was smart, grumbles the B.M.A. unofficially, in starting the service in July, when sickness rates are lowest: just wait until winter epidemics start jamming the doctors' already crowded offices...
Today's typical German university man is a war veteran, 26 years old, intensely eager to finish his education and start earning a living. What leisure he has, the student usually spends in keeping alive-rebuilding his shattered house, making forays to the countryside for food, trading in the black market. He is ten times as likely to have T.B. as in normal times; the odds are one in five that he is a cripple or amputee...