Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worst thing that could happen to this country would be a step backward in our fight against liquor. . . . Such a change [repeal of the 18th Amendment] would be a calamity, but there's no possibility of it. As for present enforcement conditions, we manage to get along well enough at Detroit, although we are next door to Canada. Personally I'd turn out the army and navy to stop bootlegging...
Curious things happen to wings in certain positions, owing to such demoniac conflicts as those of suction on the upper surfaces and pressure on the lower. The adjustment must be delicate or nose-dives and involuntary tailspins result. Slotted areas in the wing, allowing air to pass through, seem to have a kindly, stabilizing effect. Thus aviation's newest safety device is called the wing slot. Technical journals still use "probably" and "theoretically" in referring...
...Hollywood this week, and he must do each with éclat. The Hollywood crowd, although it pays only 25? a seat, is exigent. The last week in July they jeered and cat-called at soloist Aaron Copland because they did not like his Jazz Concerto. That must not happen to Percy Aldridge Grainger...
...city editor he wants a job. His first assignment is to interview his father. Another assignment is to cover a murder case, in which a girl is wrongfully accused. He neglects to make the edition and goes running off to China with the girl. Things like that do not happen to newspaper reporters...
...newspapers made much of the luck of the crew of the Rofa. They said that it was a miracle for another ship to run across her in the middle of the ocean, and that miracles only happen when a woman is skipper. Meanwhile, Mrs. William Roos, 36, experienced and muscular skipper, was telling her rescuers : "I don't want this thing to be made sensational...