Word: occur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reader with simple prayer kept unbroken the chain of Sunday services which John Wesley began, a schoolman, Headmaster G. C. Durand of Sea Island School, declared that there were "many dives" in the county. Dr. Lee, concerned over them, had said: "Some great tragedy will have to occur before Glynn County will have law and order." Said Headmaster Durand: "This looks like the tragedy...
Among these "one man" firms there is likely to be great stability of personnel and whatever openings to occur will probably be filled in an intimate and personnel way and not announced through employment agencies or newspaper advertisements. Doubtless the financial soundness of many of these small companies would hardly recommend them anyway...
Miracles-Divided as to whether they actually occur, the commission agreed that God can perform them if he wishes, although some hold that he does not wish...
...present, he offers only such concrete examples as how semantics enabled him to cure himself of a fear of "snakes," such hypothetical examples as how it might keep a man from committing suicide. In the mind of the would-be suicide, suggests Chase, would occur a semantic Stop-Look-Listen! monolog like this: "This is bad; this is painful, depressing, almost intolerable. But my life, my organism, is a process, always changing ... no two contexts are tho same. . . . Snap out of it, brother, snap out of it! Prepare for the next context...
...evidence I secured seemed to indicate that a revolt will occur against Vargas inside of one year, and probably much sooner. This revolt will be led by General Flores da Cunha* and will have the backing of some business interests...