Word: happen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morning dew and cobwebs in the rigging indicate a southwest wind during the day. Nine times out of ten, if you see porpoises there will be an easterly. I don't know why. but I've seen it happen time after time...
Close behind in the gumshoe race runs the auto industry. Said the report: "There are probably more than 10,000 people who know what is going to happen to forward model cars. The opportunities to pick up valuable trade secrets are enormous." The Dearborn (Mich.) Inn has received an unusually large amount of income for its top-floor rooms; the inn just happens to overlook the Ford test track in Dearborn. One automan, who confessed to the Harvard men that he had gone "too far," telephoned the top office of a competitor, got information on a new model by realistically...
...drives families out of their apartment houses and homes into the streets and parks, onto their tenement fire escapes, and into their autos for long, aimless cruises along the webwork of the city's highways-the kind of sense-dulling night that makes people hope for something to happen to take their minds off the weather's oppression...
After taking time to go to the movies, the U.S. Supreme Court last week unanimously came out for free expression of ideas on the screen or elsewhere-even if the ideas happen to be adultery, "socialism or the single tax," or presumably anything anyone can think...
...most dangerous thing that can happen to old people who were once attractive is to forget that they no longer...