Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shudders to think what might happen to a college curriculum if the undergraduates suddenly decided to purify the courses offered for the instruction, or destruction, as the case may be, of the young. There were at least four questions on a recent examination that we took, or were taken by. And we might very well have completely ignored those questions, letting the professor think that we were either zealous reformers, all two of us, or that we were refreshingly ignorant of the Facts. And he would know all along that we weren't at all. In Fact, we probably taught...
...TIME. In TIME, Jan. 24, I notice under MILESTONES : "Married, Constance Towner, daughter of Gov. Towner of Porto Rico; to one Lester B. Young; in San Juan, P. R. Hers was the first marriage in 400 years at the Executive Mansion, onetime Spanish." This statement is incorrect as I happen to have been present at the marriage of Miss Bertha Allen, daughter of the first Civic Governor of Porto Rico, to Captain George Logan, U. S. N. This marriage took place at the Executive Mansion...
...raised a rent or put a tenant out for not paying the rent. When the War came, the government took all his property under the Alien Property Custodian's Act. George Ehret got it back again. When Prohibition came he could not quite believe it. That it should happen, such a craziness! . . . He refused to shut up his brewery. He would not let any man leave him until the man had a new job. The old brewers, who like him would rather have lost money than mixed their materials with dirty city water, who were proud of their lager...
...true that everybody is living longer than his forbears, and how does that happen? wondered Surgeon Mayo's hearers at Washington. The average length of life was 20 years in 1650; 40 in 1850; 45 in 1875; is 58 now. This improvement is so, he declared, be cause people are learning to take better care of themselves. Said he: "The dangerous age of a woman is from 16 to 18. But the dangerous age for a man is from 50 to 55. If you can't keep your eye on them, lock them up. . . . Gland transfusion is the bunk...
...surprised if strange things happen to you. You'll probably give your seat to a lady on the way home, and go out for fencing the next day. And if you don't hum "Lantern of Love" all through your Chem. 2 exam the next day, you are either deaf or hard-boiled...