Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anything can happen if only peace exists - it will be possible to ride a railway train from Canton to the Amur River under a single flag ; possible to irrigate the fields of Hunan with the waters of Szechwan; possible to warm the homes of Shanghai with the coal of Shansi, possible to fuel the trucks of Yünnan with the oil of Sinkiang. The vision is too great, the hope too high for any group or any individual to dare to flout it with impunity...
...star, looked down at the earth through a telescope and was startled to see the battle of Waterloo just going on. (Said Fadiman: "It took the light rays from Napoleon's battle almost 200 light years to travel from the earth. . . . Things can't be observed to happen simultaneously in space. . . .") Then Stoopnagle was brought back to earth, put aboard a ship, where he observed that he was moving. (Fadiman: "Everything in the universe is moving all the time. The motion of a single object cannot be measured . . . except as it moves in relation to another. . . Relative...
Explained one Nanking citizen: "The truth is that we have all been puppets, more or less. We have held jobs under the puppet government, or we have done business with the Japanese. After eight years you get used to it. This is our city. What will happen to us now that you have come back...
...PRESSURES MANY TIMES GREATER. BIG CHALLENGE TO AMERICA NOW IS FOR BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS AND GOVERNMENT TO HOLD THE LINE THROUGH TRANSITION PERIOD TO SUSTAINED PROSPERITY. AFTER END OF WORLD WAR ONE COST OF LIVING INDEX ROSE ANOTHER 40%, CAUSED MISERY AND HARDSHIP. WE ARE DETERMINED THAT SHALL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN...
With care, and great trepidation, the physicists laid the bricks. They knew they were deep in unknown territory; anything might happen. Around them hummed southside Chicago. Nearby, students passed on their way to classes...