Word: occur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buzzards are newsmen for being grateful that, if disasters must occur, they arrange themselves in such orderly procession that the Press can turn each to best advantage...
...That potent quintessence came to be called a hormone. Other glands in the body were soon found to produce secretions of similar potency. Thus born was the modern science of endocrinology.* Since Brown-Séquard's original demonstrations more and more hormones have been discovered. They occur in the pineal gland in the middle of the brain; in the pituitary gland under the forebrain; in the thyroid, parathyroids and thymus in the neck; in the adrenals on top of the kidneys; in the pancreas at the stomach; in the stomach and intestines; in the ovaries and testicles. These...
...strong evidence of the same distaste for political things in France, and I would not be surprised to see the French unite in supporting a man who could spare them the turbulence of politics," said Mr. Pound. "I doubt if this could occur in America or England, because these two countries do not take their politics as seriously as the others...
Lest this occur, on the eve of the court's convening. President Roosevelt passed it a broad and hopeful hint when in his sixth "fireside" radio talk he recalled: "The great Chief Justice White said: 'There is great danger, it seems to me, to arise from the constant habit which prevails where anything is opposed or objected to of referring without rhyme or reason to the Constitution as a means of preventing its accomplishment, thus creating the general impression that the Constitution is but a barrier to progress instead of being the broad highway through which alone true...
...Chairman Jesse Jones finally admitted that banks were doing their part in lending to business. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sent a platoon of professors into the Chicago Federal Reserve district to find out who was holding up credit expansion. But not until last week did it occur to anyone in Washington to look for the Administration's pet banking villain right inside the Treasury. At a Washington conference of national bank examiners President Francis Marion Law of the American Bankers Association politely suggested that perhaps the periodic examinations were so strict that bankers feared to do anything except...