Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe a reporter can do his job just as conscientiously as can a judge who listens to evidence and arguments of counsel and witnesses in a case in which he may happen personally to know, and even be friendly with, the litigants...
...This already has happened in the past. It may happen again. Indeed, it will happen again, not between cities and the country, but in an infinitely greater order of magnitude. The whole white race may be submerged by the colored races, which multiply with a rhythm unknown to ours...
...camp, which is under government supervision, is conducted on a semi-military basis, and is to field artillery what Plattsburg is to infantry. Harvard and Yale are together at this camp merely because they happen to be in the same corps area...
...parody of a song whose heroes should be Frankie and Meiklejohnnie, and even, it may be, pin sad pennants to their walls. Yet, in the next year, unlike the freshmen at Harvard, the freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, or most other freshmen in the U. S., something might happen to these freshmen that would change their minds. Reading about the bright city on whose finest temple an owl perched, like a symbol of tragic and sagacious hunger, they might, in some strange way, grow to know something more about Milwaukee or St. Paul. They would perhaps laugh at Aristophanes...
Modern and Beacon-"Uncle Tom's Cabin"-This caused a war 68 years ago. There's no telling what may happen with movietones...