Word: happen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University, Dr. Darwin, 50, has been Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, since 1936. In 1931 he compared physics to "a mother who has just given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to happen next." Physics has given birth to several other children since then, and Physicist Darwin will try to deal with them all, since research in pure science as well as industrial work goes on at N.P.L. He will move into the palace with a wife and five real children...
...oldtime Portlanders were not convinced this was the final word on the future of their most famous newspaper. When Henry Pittock's 470 shares of stock are distributed among five heirs next year, almost anything can happen. And back of this uncertain prospect loomed the tenacious shadow of the other giant who built the Oregonian-its famed, longtime (1865-1910) editor, Harvey Whitefield Scott, who died convinced that Henry Pittock had double-crossed...
...relieve the depression it lowers the gold value of its currency. In its own currency, its prices may seem higher, but in gold, the international currency, they drop, exerting pressure on the international price structure. . . . The world has seen it happen again and again...
...then strange things started to happen. "Drive slower, so everybody can see," the chauffeur heard Corrigan say as the procession started for City Hall. When the welcoming parade was over, Douglas Corrigan had his appraisal ready: "What? . . . only two hours and fifteen minutes. ... In Kansas City the parade was two hours and forty minutes." Down at the Hall Corrigan got a shiny gold medal. "This is a pretty good medal," he vouchsafed to Mayor Frank L. Shaw. Then he added: "Some of the others were better...
...nearly three years after J. David Stern went to New York and bought the Post, clever little Publisher Roy Howard of "the World-Telegram remarked: "I wonder what's going to happen to the Post when Dave takes it out from under the oxygen tent...