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Word: happens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides Finn, the principal Brown threat is Roy Swingler, a young man who ran a kickoff for an 80-yard touchdown against the Crimson in 1941. It could happen again...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Favored to Defeat brown In Quest for Seventh win of Season | 11/16/1946 | See Source »

...become an annual affair. Says Johnson: "People who are separated in their compartments always believe the worst of others. If you bring them together so that it doesn't violate their first defenses, they discover that the worst isn't going to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Walk, Not Run | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Favored teams in this meeting of cast coast cross country talent are Dartmouth and Army, but in a five mile race with 63 entries anything can happen, and Jaakko hopes to get some of his men in the low scoring positions. Last year, Army, one of the newcomers to the new nine-sided Heptagonal, took home the lowest score and the Indians captain, Jack Hanley, who will be leading his team this year, won the coveted first place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Harriers Struggle Against Ivy League Rivals in Heptagonals | 11/9/1946 | See Source »

Like Joseph Stalin, George Papashvily was born in Russia's Georgia. Then they became quite unalike: Joseph entered politics, George entered the U.S. In 1945, the Book-of-the-Month Club selected Anything Can Happen-a whimsical, owlish account in Georgian English of George's 20 years of life as an immigrant, dictated by himself, set down by his wife, Helen. Today, Helen runs the Moby Dick Bookshop in Allentown, Pa., and George spends "part of each day at a granite quarry working on an animal figure he designed to commemorate the plight of the world during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Childish & Curious | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...Stories, the new Papashvily opus, is not likely to be so popular as Anything Can Happen. It consists simply of 20 folk stories that were told to George when he was a Georgia boy. The principal characters include wolves, princesses, witches and giants-none of whom seems far removed from the worlds of Hans Christian Andersen or La Fontaine, all of whom combine to give this collection a childish and curious poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Childish & Curious | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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