Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also express our dissent with his valuation of another teacher with whom we happen to be acquainted. We feel that Professor Chamberlain is not only a good, but an excellent teacher, who in 101 made a subject of much inherent difficulty consistently interesting, and sometimes intriguing. He is, as clearly, outstanding in fairness and friendliness. Mr. Bunde probably much underestimates the continuing value of Professor Chamberlin's work in Monopolistic Competition...
...dance. In the Library, lights were low, the fire blazing, a radio softly cooing. Happy couples were resting from the ardors of the dance, enjoying the soothing half-darkness. Amidst it all sat the librarian at his desk, a stern, uncompromising figure, bending over a book, "It Can't Happen Here...
...Europe jumped over 350% between 1920 and 1928, building went on as rapidly as in any period of history, and if for a moment a steadily rising standard of living seemed an approachable goal for mankind, it was a measure of what continued peace meant, of what might happen in a community of nations that was not haunted by dreams of the last War, or by premonitions of the next...
...might find war, if it comes, not to his taste. War might mean the rise once more to power of the old Prussian Army machine and a policeman's lot might not be so important in war as in peace. But war or no war, anything that might happen to eclipse or remove Herr Himmler's aging boss can be expected to be the signal for a dogfight for power between Herren Göring, Goebbels and Himmler. Herr Himmler, the youngest of the lot, does not intend to be the least...
...Flatto turned up for last week's meeting, claiming to hold 9,000 proxies representing 250,000 shares. He demanded to know what would happen if he had 300,000 shares and the management had 300,001. Mr. Carlton retorted that nothing would happen...