Word: occur
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wall Street for American intervention, and the bankers will doubtless seize this opportunity for pressing their claims on Mr. Roosevelt. Even more serious is the news that the Cuban government plans to take over in the same summary fashion the United Railways Company which is British owned. Should this occur Mr. Roosevelt will indeed be faced by a problem which will tax all his powers of statesmanship. If he cannot get some sort of guarantee from the Cuban government that the occupation of these properties will not be permanent he will find himself forced to choose between two highly disagreeable...
...Committee on Nominations of the Alumni Association announced yesterday that thirteen Harvard graduates had been chosen as candidates for the five vacancies on the Board of Overseers, which will occur by normal retirement this June...
...would need six months to check their data, iron out some unaccountable variations. In the Pease-Pearson report last week the variations, up to 12 mi. per sec., were stunningly unaccounted for, were apparently real fluctuations in the speed of light. Worse, they were not irregular but seemed to occur in well-defined rhythms. There was one cycle of 14¾ days, another of about a year, another apparently following the tides of the ocean. And at 9 p. m. every night something happened which threw the tests entirely askew. Dr. Pease and Assistant Pearson did not say flatly that...
...whether this is a deliberate part of the policy of your paper, or whether it is one of those things that is likely to occur in a publication without intent? In order that we may know how to deal with it in connection with the boycott, I would like to have an expression of the views of your paper on this whole subject. It seems to me incredible that in this 20th Century a publication of wide circulation such as yours should have anti-Semitic tendencies, which I believe is contrary to the spirit of Americanism and will offend...
From the outset the story moves at a rapid pace, short brisk chapters, each one which brings a new complex of situations or new discoveries to . The dialogue and characters are very convincing and the dull moments that do occur lost thought of by reason of the inevitability with which the dilemma arises at the end of every chapter...