beginnings

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“American Patriarch” is a tonic reminder that, from its very beginnings, our republic has exhaled a whiff of the miraculous.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

In Anaheim, St. Catherine’s Academy combines Catholic boys’ K-8 education and military traditions, having its beginnings in a girls school, later an orphanage, and, in 1924, a military school.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

“It should reflect American values: hard work, humble beginnings, doing right by your neighbor,” the interior designer Annie Elliott told HuffPost.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

Go to the beginnings of Hollywood and there are Robin Hood movies: Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, some shorts from even earlier.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Nor can I see why historians should cede many of the most interesting questions to other disciplines—politics, philosophy, sociology—simply because they require a consideration of beginnings and endings.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton