Word: occur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Bolivian war hero with a chestful of medals, a thorough military training and an expression so lugubrious that he looks as if he were about ready to cry. Until last week he was also President of Bolivia. He gained that post in one of the military coups that occur frequently in South American politics: Señor Busch was one of a group of officers who overthrew the Government after the Chaco War against Paraguay. He first supported a semi-Socialist regime, then threw out the semi-Socialists...
...same time dispatches from Burgos stated that the retirement of foreign "volunteers" would be carried out in accordance with promises to leave at the end of the war, indicating that this would occur after a "victory parade" in Madrid, now scheduled...
...hybrid members will be granted full House privileges, including use of dining halls, use of libraries where capacity permits, and participation in all House activities. As far as possible they will be admitted to residence as vacancies occur in the Houses with which they are affiliated...
...human writing machine Edgar Wallace had no rivals. But it would occur to few serious writers to pick him for the subject of a biography; if they did, it would be an almost irresistible temptation to make him into a satire or a sermon...
...automobile manufacturer; a union organizer in the automobile factory. The characters and the events are both much like those to be found in hackneyed left-wing novels. But Author Herbst is no propagandist; there are no revolutions around the corner; her characters move under their own power; their crises occur inside themselves instead of on picket lines...