Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Temporarily inoperative due to the usual rigors of New England winter, this branch of the HOC plans to take to the roads again with the first breath of spring...
...that accounts for it. However," as a freshman in 1915 I was greatly perplexed by Muensterberg's thickly accented Germanic lectures in Psychology A. I puzzled over his worry as to whether 'zee post was zere or not zere'...I think my addiction to psychology since that time is due in part to my determination to unravel the Muensterbergian puzzles. I can't say I've solved them...
...football, headlines still went to Alvin Paris, a tinhorn gambler who entertained players with partying chorus girls, and tried to fix the National League's championship game between the Bears and the Giants (TIME, Dec. 23). He was due to be sentenced next week...
...stands at the wrong phase of two distinct influenza cycles. An influenza pandemic, which recurs every twenty to thirty years, has not been visited upon the world since 1918, when it killed twenty-one million people of whom half a million were Americans. The pandemic virus has been due to strike again since 1937. Less powerful viruses, the more common influenza "A" or "B", tend to run in five or six year cycles. Both are set for a re-appearance, since neither has been detected in epidemic form since before...
Dean Sherman conjectured that the increment in college imbibing might be due in part to the enlarged veteran complement. Servicemen's threats have been inured to such potent potions as "jungle juice" and the high concentrations achieved by amateur distillers with fermenting fruit in closed gasoline tins. Such concoctions passed the "pressure purity test" when they blew off the sealed...