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Word: happens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imagination made his magazine articles prescient. Said he in 1935: "Imagine four million Parisians streaming out of Paris by every road, choking every artery, hindering all military movements, preventing the influx of supplies, paralyzing more or less the nerve centre of the country. That is what is going to happen when the first German bombers appear over Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...quite unable to decide whether tattooed skin could be grafted, and, if so, what would happen. Suppose I transferred some of Mary to the mastoid, would it have any influence on the man's mentality? Would it send him seeking Mary in whatever far-distant corner of the earth he had encountered her? Suppose he subsequently developed tinnitus [ringing in the ears], would voices whisper 'Mary'? Would the skinned portion of Mary be replaced with an undecorated regrowth. . . .? Would I be liable for damages in this event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Grafting Problem | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Logic is a very specialized field, taken only by a few men, but this is no reason to shy away if you happen to be interested in the logical method. Quine is himself a famous logician, and his Phil. 1 is excellently handled. But before taking it, have a good memory and be able to think symbolically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Review of Humanity Concentration Continued | 3/12/1941 | See Source »

...this should happen, executive members of the Liberal Union will put forward a counter-resolution contending that, although Communists have proved to be the ruin of certain organizations in which the HLU has been interested, a complete ban would ultimately do more harm than good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.L.U. May Oust Communists By Resolution in Meeting | 3/12/1941 | See Source »

...basement. Meanwhile Liverpool, too, had an air raid. When she returned for the baby, she had to dig it out from under a heap of bomb-strewn rubble. She trundled it to the dock in a commandeered sausage truck. She was really quite worried that something would happen to the baby. But nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bronze Baby and Blitz | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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