Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college trained men. Doctor Hopkins, referring to Faraday and Pasteur, refuted the financiers, but in doing so deprecated the insistence on material results. He testified to the value of "better thinking", to the need of it in a nation where book censorship, the Scopes' Trial, and Mayor Thompson could happen...
Ships of war, built to destroy, always look proof against destruction, especially in dock or at anchor. The kind of thing that can happen to them when least expected happened last week aboard the aircraft carrier Langley, at her dock in San Diego, Calif. Other ships of war in the harbor heard an explosion, saw a sheet of flame. Smoke poured from a gaping hole in the Langley's side abaft her bridge. Three sailors who had been working in a launch slung from the Langley's davits, struggled in the water...
Response to the League's new department of moderation was quick? so quick that some observers imagined the bigwigs had known in advance what would happen. To the League came Sebastian Spering Kresge (5¢ & 10¢ stores) of Detroit and Manhattan, long a League admirer, and declared that $500,000 of a 25 million-dollar charity fund which he lately set aside, was at Publicist Cherrington's disposal for 1928. The League had said that it wanted a million for 1928. Mr. Kresge promised to get the rest at once from fellow businessmen. Within 20 minutes of the opening...
...advisors only. Far too many of the men who perform the onerous task of interviewing students bring into their respective offices a set of ideas which was adopted years ago and has been firmly cemented by the passage of time. If the student's own plans and tastes happen to coincide with those of his advisors, everything goes smoothly, but woe to him who has ideas...
...Judson of Continental Motors at once said: "We expect to maintain our position indefinitely as an independent manufacturer." And President Edward Stanlaw Jordan of Jordan Motors said: "I don't care to say anything about the situation at this time. I can assure you that nothing will happen in the next few days." At once reports associated Moon Motor Car Co. and Cleveland-Chandler Motors Corp. with the group...