Word: occur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bitter Tea of General Yen (Columbia). A sweet and intelligent young woman whose forbears are New England puritans arrives in Shanghai from the U. S. to marry a handsome and fiery missionary. Two accidents occur. The young lady sees her rickshaw boy brutally run down by a Chinese brigand-general; her marriage ceremony is delayed because the missionary has to rescue six children from an orphanage in besieged Chapei. During the rescue, the young woman is kidnapped by the brigand-general who ran over the coolie. General Yen (Nils Asther) whisks Megan Davis to his summer palace, dresses...
...course, rankles in the hearts of both Princeton undergraduates and graduates alike. Princeton for some time has felt it eminently necessary to remain a part of the Big Three. Placing these two facts together, then, one readily understands why such phenomena as those of the last weekend can occur...
...Atlanta, said Governor Richard Brevard Russell Jr.: "This decision makes it easy to understand how the most horrible crime of modern times, the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, which shocked the entire world, could occur and go unpunished in a State whose Governor has such ideas...
...looms nearer, the question of the inconvenience caused by the closing of Widener Library in the evening will again come to the fore, with the increased demand on the part of undergraduate students for a restricted number of books. Renewed agitation for the opening of the Library will undoubtedly occur as soon as an appreciable number of students begin to find themselves seriously inconvenienced in the stampede to do the required reading period work...
Such incidents unfortunately do not occur every day, nor every week. I have been unusually fortunate in that I have had one perhaps every year which netted me a profit of four figures for a trifling outlay...