Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mixture of fear, frustration and anger was expressed in many ways. In Cleveland, U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther announced that contracts covering 400,000 of his autoworkers would be reopened promptly-a statement that increased the possibility of a new wage scrimmage. Some people trembled to think what would happen if federal rent controls were dropped. And some were beginning to shift uneasily at the prospect that the booming U.S. was in for a recession, if not a bust (see BUSINESS...
When a nation and a continent are sick at soul, it may sometimes happen that some seemingly irrelevant incident, some senseless isolated instance of violence or stupidity, serves better than acres of learned analysis to yield a bright flash of insight into the breakdown of normal social and human standards. Such an incident occurred last week near Wiener-Neudorf, in Austria's Russian zone...
Just in case you don't happen to have a copy of the Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (June, 1904, Vol. 32, No. 2) lying handy, you might be interested to learn that in 1902, after sweating over a hot slide-rule for some weeks, the architect team of McKim, Mead and White rushed up from New York laden with rolls of blue paper. The Aberthaw Construction Company of Boston wasted no time: saziche sandwiches were prepared, red wine was distributed, and the cement started pouring. After a year-and-a-half of carefully directed work, the building...
...Defiley silence answered him. The Sage began to mutter to himself. "So Holy Cross is going to win, is it?," he said with a Glynnt in his eye. Why, that DaGrossast He I ever heard. It's perfectly Cleo to me what will happen. It'll be a fight to the Flynnish, but the score will be: Harvard 14 Holy Cross...
...hucksters of B.B.B. & M. suggested a radio show for Allen. He shouted the idea down ("If you mention that . . . again, I'll have your entire agency barred from Toots Shor's!"). To the tune of As Some Day It May Happen, Allen told why he dislikes radio...