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Word: happen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then we finally get to be seniors at the local high school, and that is the time of life that blossoms forth for the townie. We all happen to meet the students in the same way. It's the same story. . . . "I was down by the river or walking down the square . . . when the most adorable fellow came over to me and said" . . . You know the rest. Why go on? . . . And after she meets one she meets them all. . . . It's the same story year in and year out. "My last year's roommate left this telephone number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/25/1939 | See Source »

...President William Green had gone home to Coshocton, Ohio. So sure that nothing could happen was C. I. O.'s Lewis that he dared to get funny. No sooner had the President concluded than John Lewis handed to Franklin Roosevelt, Fanny Perkins and the Federation committeemen a mimeographed document, proposing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: I Am Counting On You | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Papa Dionne didn't see why the mountain should have to go to Mohammed. He was for holding up his decision. "You never can tell what may happen," he said. Said Allan Roy Dafoe, the country doctor who brought the girls into the world: "Anything may happen." The girls practiced curtsying for a cameraman. This week Papa Dionne finally said yes to his daughters' first personal appearance outside Callander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Only Chance | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...hopes to be able to whip the few remaining players in last fall's first eleven and some of the Jayvees into good shape this spring. "If I get a good chance to work with the boys, anything might happen. Teams are made, you know, not born...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Harlow Returns From Vacation To Open Spring Practice for Booters | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

...announcer a few Sundays back inadvertently attributed the Bab Ballads to Shakespeare. Three years ago Al Jolson ad libbed something about a Pennsylvania hotel that may cost NBC $15,000. If Radio Engineer James Arthur Miller had his way, embarrassing and costly mishaps like these would not happen on the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Miller's Way | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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