Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish they would start a Drama Department. Do you think they might? Or do you think I'll have to transfer? Or do you suppose maybe I'll change my mind again...
...handful of literary Freshmen--30 from Harvard and six from Radcliffe--got a head start this week on the other 1500 members of the Harvard-Annex Classes of '52 by passing their English A Anticipatory exams...
...Berlin. Great nations are not powder kegs exploding into war at the drop of a carelessly tossed diplomatic démarche. Nor are they children, to be pacified by a conciliatory lollipop. Situations ripe for war find the specific issues (sometimes quite trivial ones, like Sarajevo) that start the shooting. Situations not ripe for war ignore specific issues (sometimes very serious ones, like Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland...
...could, of course, be wrong, as the Kaiser and Hitler and Tojo were wrong. Who will win a war is determined by real strength, but whether a war will start is determined largely by estimates of strength, which may be right or wrong...
...entitled to buy "commutation tickets," and thus avoid paying the 15% federal transportation tax. Mid-Continent expects to run eleven commuter routes (sample: Kansas City-Tulsa), sell commuters' ticket books (four tickets, valid for one month) at an 18% discount. At least six other major lines intend to start commuter services...