Word: happening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radio Inc., retail specialists in radios and sporting goods, jumped on the band wagon, making a deal with Allen B. DuMont Laborato^ ries, Inc. for exhibition and sale of DuMont sets. Demonstrations were planned to pick up the NBC experimental evening telecast from the Empire State tower. What often happens to best-laid plans began to happen fast...
...South Shore Players at Cohasset, Mass, announced that famed Novelist Sinclair Lewis would make his debut as a professional actor there this summer, playing for a week in July the role of Doremus Jessup in the dramatization of his book, It Can't Happen Here...
...Economics, there happen to be two courses, 11 and 36, primarily on the history of economics. The demand for a course in the history of economic theory ceased when the requirement was dropped; today concentrators can take a graduate course on this subject, if they so desire. Again it is reasonable to place responsibility for this instruction upon the tutors...
...Cardinal campaign some opposition to individual Jews has been expressed, but I feel sure that this opposition has not extended further than to specific individuals. I have found no anti-Semitic trend or temper in any of my conferences. . . . Because the last two elected editors do not happen to be Wisconsin-born, the feeling has grown that they represent an eastern class-struggle point of view rather than the liberal Wisconsin tradition...
Everybody has wondered what would happen if people could read each other's minds. In The Thought-Reading Machine amiable, yea-saying André Maurois gives them the power, finds people's secret thoughts are not so bad. Professor Dumoulin was lecturing at a U. S. university when a colleague handed him what looked like a rolled-up copy of FORTUNE, said it was an invention for recording secret thoughts. Dumoulin secretly tried it on his wife, unearthed a startling hodgepodge of sentimental memories of an early lover, resentment against himself. But when he taxed her about...