Word: occur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy, France, Britain might be willing that such a thing should occur, but they certainly did not want it blurted out in this rude manner, for it meant the practical revision of one of the sacrosanct War treaties, and if Austria could win revision on a small point, here was an opening wedge for Germany! Loudly they insisted that they were not permitting compulsory service, that the new volunteers were to be admitted only for as long as the "special conditions" lasted. Chastened General Vaugoin subsided, knowing that in three years Austria will have...
...solely on the basis of consumption, we find that the depression is marked by sharply reduced con- sumption of producers' goods. That the way out of depression is to increase consumption of producers' goods seems evident. ... At the present time, however, if such a balanced recovery does occur, it does not seem likely that it can be attributed in any large part to the current activities of the Administration...
...Foreign Ministry. But last week there was tense anticipation in Nanking. Across the Pacific steamed the S. S. President Jefferson bringing home able Minister Soong, famed for his uncompromising policy toward Japan. Japan cocked a belligerent eye on "any new developments in China's political situation that may occur subsequent to the return of T. V. Soong." Unofficial plans were made to have Minister Soong stop off in Tokyo for quiet conversations with Japanese officials. But when the S. S. President Jefferson docked last week in Yokohama, Minister Soong refused to leave the ship...
Such a dramatic upheaval can be indeed pleasant to ponder over, but it does not seem in the least likely to occur. Some explanation for this may be that the Lowell regime was not as stuffy, narrow-minded, and conservative as the wiseacres tend to make out. President Lowell himself declared that he preferred to be called a conservative because he could then be as progressive as he like, and no one could object; As far as personal tastes are concerned, he was as well acquainted with the subway as Mr. Conant...
...susceptibility to cancer can be inherited, Professor Slye turned her attention to the specific causes of the rise of cancer in susceptible people. She says cancer is not so much a disease as it is a growth-process. She points out that whereas the highest number of human cancers occur in the digestive tract below the esophagus, the same does not hold true for beasts. Of all the mouse autopsies she has performed, about 15,000 were cancerous mice, but only about 25 had intestinal tumors. The difference probably lies in the diet. For long years her mice received...