Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsmen finally did, however, dig out something of what went on-and printed it. The fact seemed to be that Britain, which had been in at the start but not at the finish of atom-bomb making, had at last just about solved the knack of making them. That fact, if it were a fact, had enormous consequences. For one thing, if the U.S. no longer had an atomic monopoly, it would no longer have sole say in what to do about the atom...
...argued, not to get A's or B's. So he did away with the old system of report cards. Then he abolished automatic annual promotions. His pupils, he declared, would advance as fast or as slowly as they were able. In the fall, each child would start off each subject where he had ended it the year before, regardless of what his classmates were doing...
Despite her mysterious ailment, Sandy grew strong. But after every swallow of food, says her mother, there was an agonizing wait to see whether she would start to choke...
...Count. Dutton's experts start each summers campaign the previous autumn estimating the number of eggs that have been laid just under the ground in the chief breeding areas. Then the division publishes a brightly colored grasshopper map showing ranchers and farmers where to expect trouble...
Slichter thought that, paradoxically, production would keep going down through July. That would make people feel more pessimistic than ever. Said Slichter: "The revival will start . . . while gloom is still thick and while the price level is still falling . . . Each month that consumption exceeds production strengthens the foundation for recovery...