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Word: happeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When would his next issue be? In the words of Publick Occurrences' first editor, whenever "any Glut of OCCURRENCES happen." There would probably be six or eight gluts a year, Monaghan guessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Under New Management | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...student who signs up for Humanities 3b gets a clear picture of what the course expects to give him, and how it expects to do it. Consequently, he is unlikely to change his mind about it after he has signed up, has a much clearer picture of what will happen to him next term and can plan the rest of his program accordingly. This informed person probably will add neither his name to the petition pile nor his person to the shopper horde...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sins of Catalogue | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

...long sunless period. Snow, icy gales and subfreezing temperatures were also out for endurance records. All week long there was frost, without a break. Reported the weatherman: "It's very rare to have continuous frost for more than three days; this sort of thing doesn't happen more than half a dozen times in a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Black & White | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...line "between good-grey press and yellow or purple press," said Markel, divides editors who stress important news from those who stress interesting news. Once in 1922, he recalled, he had asked the late Publisher Adolph S. Ochs: "How does it happen that the Times, which publishes only the news that's fit to print, carries columns upon columns of the Hall-Mills [lovers' lane murder] story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Unread Press | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...pseudo-scientific yarn called The President of the United States, Detective, by H. R. Heard (who, as Gerald Heard, is also a Southern California cult-leader), last week won first ($3,000) prize in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine annual story contest. Heard's plot: What would happen if the icecaps completely melted? The year is 1977, and an expanded U.S.S.R. has fallen under the domination of a vicious Oriental named Yang, who plots to destroy the U.S.A. by geological warfare. Yang's plan is to melt the earth's icecaps with atomic energy. The water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oasis | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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