Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Belgian peasants fearing what was going to happen, scuttled inland. Finally the Zeebrugge dykes yielded to the sea's inexorable blows. Ninety feet of stone wall crumbled and the sea shot inland. Similarly fell part of the dykes at Nieuport. The water covered fifty square miles of farming land. Hundreds of cattle were drowned...
...their positions for having been unfaithful to the regime. The national opinion knows the value of such tricks, but the good faith of the foreign opinions might be surprised by such misleading news and therefore it is convenient to make it known to the public that nothing has happened in Spain, and that nothing will happen, as there is lack of ambient for the most insignificant disturbance, and that those who might intend to promote it are closely watched; and that, on the contrary, His Majesty the King has shown every day the greater proof of affection and confidence that...
Masters of prose and politics despaired of bettering Don Rafael's expert sentence: ''Nothing has happened in Spain, and . . . nothing will happen, as there is lack of ambient...
...respect an American musical play is better than a musical play which is not American. Also it would be useless; Mr. Cohan and the formula have made each other famous and it will require more than death to part them. It is true that the indigenous qualities of Billie happen often to be its most appealing ones; there is a scene in which two idiotic rogues confer together, making monkeys of themselves and many others. Songs and dances are in Billie also; of the former not the least engaging is one which contains the sweet though unrevealing phrase, "Wherever...
...first string tackle material is strong; what would happen in the event of an injury to one of the regulars, however, is one of the questions which may decide the outcome of Saturday's game. Howard and Farris, veteran lettermen of last season, are counted upon to hold their own, but the strength of the untried reserves in this department is an unknown quantity...