Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even before 1935, when he began to soft-pedal World Revolution, J. Stalin was stingy about dispensing "Moscow gold" in the U. S. and Britain. Since 1935 many Reds have found him a Shylock...
Wells Lewis is Sinclair Lewis' son by his first marriage-a grave, poised, sandy-haired young man of 21, studying history, absorbed in music, and certainly unlike the youthful monstrosities Sinclair Lewis satirized in The Prodigal Parents. Last year Son Wells began working on his novel in Harvard, continued it in Mexico while visiting his mother, incidentally bringing Mexico into the story, delivered it last week to his publishers, Farrar & Rinehart...
Irwin Edman was 21 when he began teaching philosophy at Columbia University. On the campus one day shortly afterwards he met his old professor, Felix Adler. "What are you doing now?" inquired the professor. "Teaching," said Edman. "Teaching what?" "Philosophy," said Edman. The old man patted the open-faced, blond youth on the back. "How cute!" he said...
...tuberculous, 30-year-old nurse named Margaret Sanger began publishing singlehanded a feminist paper called the Woman Rebel. Six months later she began raising money for a pamphlet called Family Limitation, the opening gun in her campaign to spread the gospel of Birth Control...
...booters seemed to have definitely recovered from their slump which began two weeks before when they were tied by the Tigers from New Jersey, and which almost cost them a blemish on their undefeated record at the hands of M. I. T. last week...