Word: happen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory, this is not supposed to happen. The Ad Hoc Committee which recommends who should become a professor is composed of leading men in the field from Harvard and elsewhere. The Committee, supposedly, looks for and considers qualified men from the entire nation. But in practice, the Ad Hoc Committee frequently fails to limit a department's tendency to become ingrown with like minded and similarly trained men. Departments oft-times make it clear to the Committee which man they want for the job. A "fair haired" young man is groomed for a particular professorship so that...
...said. "I was simply unknowing. I didn't realize the import of what I was saying. His Majesty had asked me to speak. It was only after I spoke that I realized, I who lived so freely, what things were really like in Morocco, and what would happen because I had spoken...
...four, in 1929, she gave her first concert. While rehearsing for it, she asked her father what would happen if she made a mistake. He told her that people would be there ready to let fly with rotten eggs and vegetables, demonstrated when she missed a note by throwing a ripe tomato at her. Ruth played brilliantly, had critics raving. "Not since Mozart . ." one began...
...little Julia Ashley, who is encountered competing with Irish pigs for some swill left behind by the Roundhead soldiery who laid Ireland waste. She grows up to be adopted by a dashing cavalier, farmed out to a Dutch orphanage and, in the natural course of events as they happen in female historical novels, mistress of a great plantation in the Dutch East Indies. Cloves is what they grow in the islands, hence the smell...
...then, the classic tempest in a teapot. It might happen again; Brandeis and Northeastern have severed athletic relations because someone was blocked too hard on a kickoff. All we can hope for is that today's encounter will be played in the cleanest fashion and under the rules of sportmanship that all gentlemen recognize. If they beat us too badly though, we can always drop them and play Marlboro instead