Word: occur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more, plausible, thereby losing what over strength there may be in his argument. In "The Liberation of American Literature" he makes a rapid survey of literary endeavor in this country before the twentieth century, and with few exceptions brands it all as bourgeois and "un-American." It does not occur to him that, even if this, were true, the middle-class is after all sufficiently numerous to deserve literary expression, and the Unites States of the eighteenth and nineteenth countries was not "American," as he demands that term be used...
...communities where the early Catholic influence has survived (New Orleans. Mobile), the community's annual civic celebration takes place just before Lent and is called Mardi Gras. In the central grain-&-pumpkin belt the organized merrymaking is scheduled to occur just after harvest time, when farmers used to have money enough to go to town and buy. Last week the chief cities in two big Western States were the scenes of such affairs...
Capable Playwright Crothers has cross-stitched her problem drama with pure comedy. Brightest moments of the play occur when Mary's rich, flibberty-gibbet friend Bridget (Spring Byington) is permitted to loosen her tactless but well-meaning tongue. "I know how you feel, Mary," she says consolingly. "It used to make me feel so badly when my husband went off and left me. I didn't feel half so sad when he died. I knew where...
...risks for insurance. Some companies now insure pilots by special arrangement, fixing the rate (always high) after a study of his particular type of flying. Among transport pilots the annual mortality rate runs between 20 and 25 per 1,000. Deaths among holders of limited commercial and private licenses occur about one-half as frequently but their rate per hour of flying is higher...
...poll is conducted with scrupulous honesty and care, there are several factors which provide a possibility of error. Most of the votes are cast a month before the election, and many people are apt to change their minds. A candidate may do something foolish, or an unexpected event may occur, or Trend be evidenced, which will change the whole course of public opinion. The possibility of error is not large enough to be of importance except in a close election, however, and the forthcoming election does not appear to be close...