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Word: happens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conquering lover of the loud ocean was born in 1877 near the murmuring mills of Worcester, Mass. He is silver-haired and very shy. After the Antinöe disaster, the wife of the rescued captain tried to thank Rescuer Fried. "It is only one of the little things that happen at sea," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Fried | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

What would happen if a motor car should run head-on into a marching column of soldiers? Rumanians found out last week. Fifteen soldiers were laid low. Five were able to rise. The other ten were rushed to a hospital, suffering from fractured skulls, broken legs, internal injuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rumania | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...student, a mathematician, a football player, and a CRIMSON editor will gather informally in the new Houses and each impart his special knowledge toward the common edification. The smallest experience of student gatherings and student conversation ought sufficiently to reveal the visionary character of such an expectation. What will happen in the chance gatherings of the new Houses will be exactly like what happens in any present chance undergraduate gathering: sports, sex, the latest political scandal, examination grievances and the like will be the topics of conversation and any mention of history, painting, or chemistry will be banned as shop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What We Shall See | 1/25/1929 | See Source »

...announcement of the purchase by the University of the Boston Elevated Company's power plant at Boylston street and Memorial Drive. The building has so long been though of as Harvard's property, or at least as obtainable almost at will, that speculation has run rather on what might happen when it was gone. Now that its disappearance before Harvard's expansion southward has become a matter only of time, there arise two questions of prime importance: What to do with the riverfront which is now open for development, and where is now open for development, and where to locate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAY OF THE LAND | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

Then there is the question of hours. Scientific experiment will also solve this problem: let one run from 7 to 11.30 as every nice little party should, and let the other function from 1 to 6. Time allowed for a good supper in Boston and everybody would be gloriously happen! J. C. de Wilde...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Compromise | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

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