Word: occur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course overlook the fact that a number of penal officials without the benefits of a college and graduate education have done outstanding work in the field. The names of Commissioner Herbert C. Parsons of the Massachusetts Board of Probation and Warden Lawes of Sing-Sing readily occur to one in that connection. But for the most part prison wardens, a large number of whom have worked up from the position of prison guard, have less than a high school education...
...Navy's dirigible Los Angeles moored to the mast of the oiler Patoka at sea. The second picture shows the Los Angeles, blown skyward by a sudden gust, sweeping the16,800-ton oiler after it high out of water. No such incident ever did or could occur. Let Reader Habicht examine his copy Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung more closely. Let him note that it is the annual April Fool's edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing the saxophone, their ladies drinking cocktails through straws...
...MacMillan will make his annual skirt of Labrador and Baffin Land, this time with a flotilla of three boats. Antarctica. A tourist trip to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America last Antarctic summer was abandoned, may occur next December. Last season Consul Lars Christensen, Norwegian whaling tycoon, steamed completely around the Antarctic Continent, looking out for whale feeding grounds and spotting a few landmarks. Sir Douglas Mawson, the Australian, spotted a few more. Africa- On Jan. 27, 1863 the late David Livingstone took a sheet of blue foolscap* and wrote to "His Excellency the Governor of the Cape...
...Physical Colloquium, Monday, in the Cruft Laboratory Lecture Room, C. K. Jen will speak on "A New Treatment of Electron Tube Oscillators" and I. F. Birch is to lecture on "Concentrated Space Charge in Calcite." The talks occur at 4.45 o'clock after a tea served in the library of the New Physics Laboratory...
...dull documents, might lead you to believe. It is a career with a constant heavy routine and something of the emergency quality of the physician's profession, since no one can know when the ills that the body politic is heir to will break forth, and when the outbreaks occur, first aid is always sought of the diplomatic representatives. No Secretary of State or Minister of Foreign Affairs, and consequently none of their subordinates, can lay down a plan of work to cover months in advance because changing conditions and new elements are sure to arise at any moment...