Word: occur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conflict between his hero's blind instinct for self-preservation and an impersonal war machine. The core of Wright's stories is the conflict between the Negro's instinct for self-preservation and an impersonal, unpredictable lynch machine. The sadistic, melodramatic physical details of his lynchings occur within an almost off-stage irrelevance. Their reality is the "white fog" of lynch terror which hangs over the Negro community, impenetrable to the brightest Southern sunlight. It is this central psychological core of Negro life in the Deep South, communicated in clear, unemotional prose, which gives Wright...
...Carl Rose-now of the Mayo Foundation cultured streptococci from inflamed muscles, injected the culture into monkeys, reproduced the disease in them. In infantile paralysis, the affected muscles are withered and flaccid; in polio-encephalitis they are not-but they are so acutely inflamed and painful that spasms often occur and any movement is impossible. Furthermore, the seat of infantile paralysis is in the spinal cord, whereas the seat of polio-encephalitis is in the brain...
...toll-40,300 dead. Dramatic centrepiece of "Death Begins at 40" is Grant Wood's painting, Death on the Ridge Road, which shows a big red truck about to crash head-on into a black sedan at a hilltop curve. Pages of statistics prove that most fatal accidents occur to experienced male drivers in the prime of life going straight ahead on dry roads in clear weather-but at high speed. Most arresting fact: In all its history the U. S. has had but 15 years* of war, with a total killed of 244,357. Killed...
...Otto Zachow, a blacksmith in Clintonville, Wis., noted how often automobiles bogged down in Wisconsin's muddy roads. It did not occur to Zachow that roads would be improved. He decided that automobiles would not be practical until their power was transmitted to all four wheels so their front wheels could pull their hind wheels out of mudholes. Blacksmith Zachow went to work in his brick machine shop, devised the world's first four-wheel drive car. The sprawling factories of Four Wheel Drive Auto Co. now employ almost a fourth of Clintonville's 3,500 residents...
Since Franklin Roosevelt is easily the world's most newsworthy personage and since the questioners are presumably the world's ablest newsgatherers, it is obviously impossible to believe that such a meeting could actually occur without producing anything more printable than a conference of kerosene tank politicians in a mud-flat filling station. Nine times out of ten, however, that is what happens. The correspondents can rarely think of anything worthwhile to ask the President; if they do the convention of mystery that surrounds all sorts of government impels the President to demonstrate his unique ability...