Word: began
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...started its international editions in 1938, Editor DeWitt Wallace soon hit a snag. At 25?, the world's biggest magazine was too expensive for the mass of readers in most foreign countries. Beginning with the Spanish-language edition in 1940, Wallace cut the price and began carrying advertising in his international editions. Circulation and advertising rose steadily, but so did production costs, and the 24 foreign editions in eleven languages, with a circulation of 6,300,000, continued in the red. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the Spanish edition, the Digest had something to celebrate. After twelve...
Soon after Marjorie McGill entered high school, she began to call on her father for help with homework problems. Occasionally, father & daughter struggled until 2 a.m. over the stuff, sometimes didn't get through all Marjorie's assignments even then. As a teacher himself (at the John Adams High School in Queens, N.Y.), father James V. McGill began to wonder: Was all this travail really necessary...
...loosen the clamp. Under the six-year-old G.I. bill they found that veterans who use cars in their business can buy them with Government-guaranteed loans, with up to two years to repay. Dealers who hadn't known or cared about the law before began offering "eligible veterans" new cars for as little as $257 down and $45 a month, about two-thirds the payments required under credit-controlling Regulation...
...pell mell. Then we would begin to imagine that because we knew where those things were, the first Yankee that appeared would know, too, and often we would go and take them all up from there and dig another hole and put them in that; so that our yards began to look like graveyards. It is very funny to think of now, but it wasn't funny then...
...pilfering team, Radcliffe students and housemothers said, works through an elderly woman who generally wears a dark coat and a yellow scarf, and carries a shopping bag. Her routine has not changed since her activity began. She comes to a dorm and asks to go upstairs to see Anna Kris '53 on the pretext that she works for Miss Kris' doctor. Miss Kris, a resident of Briggs Hall, said last night she had never met the intruder...