Word: happen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think he might extend Wisconsin's new deal over the whole nation, when he ran smack into a popular revulsion against new-dealing. Like more than a third of the States, Wisconsin turned around and elected a Republican, who clearly (against Wisconsin's background) suggested what may happen in the nation if and when the Roosevelt New Deal is turned out by a Republican leader. Last week, under Julius Peter Heil, 62, "self-made industrialist, hard-headed businessman," Wisconsin enjoyed its first week of what-follows-after-the-new-deal...
...long enough, against the British when they besieged Philadelphia in 1777. Fort Mifflin nowadays is a powder keg. Behind its ancient ramparts the U. S. Navy keeps some 450,000 lbs. of high explosives, convenient to the nearby Philadelphia Navy Yard. No Philadelphian likes to think about what might happen if an airplane landed smack on so much...
White's Merlyn is ten times more fantastic than the Merlins of Malory, Tennyson, other Arthurian romancers. White's magician was born in the future, is living backwards in time, getting younger. This device is the excuse for numerous anachronisms: since Merlyn knows what will happen in the 20th Century, why not make some of it happen in the 13th? He does, to the delight of the Wart, to the confusion of Kay, Sir Ector and the reader...
...retire to the Soviet-controlled areas of Sinkiang and Outer Mongolia. Should that occur China's cause will necessarily become Russia's battle. For Russia cannot tolerate a Japanese threat to the long southern border of Siberia and the trans-Siberian railroad. But before that can happen Japan, which conquered one New China, will have to conquer still another New China not so strong in resources but much stronger in natural defenses...
...this will not happen here. Harvard is not a currently fashionable resort, but a growing community. Its inhabitants are not sightseers; they have come to stay. If the University has difficulty in filling the Francis Lee Higginson chair, it will not be for want of applicants. With his deep, booming voice, his profound erudition and inspired criticism, Professor Lowes has added many citizens to this community...