Word: occur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proctors and Freshman advisers have been invited to the P.B.H. tea, as well as Yardlings and transfer students. The party, which will occur between 4 and 6 o'clock on Sunday afternoon at Brooks House, will be preceded by a half hour of movies in the Peabody Hall on the third floor. These will consist of a Harvard sports short, and a feature on social service work...
...wealthy publisher of the Monterey (Calif.) Peninsula Herald and president of Monterey Peninsula Broadcasting Co. World traveler and alarmed observer of the events of the '303 in Europe, he realized that one defect in army morale was that most soldiers did not appreciate how modern wars occur, did not really understand why they might have to fight...
When & where the "further dampening" will occur depends: on how effective the current controls are, on how punishing a tax bill Congress passes, on how many defense bonds consumers buy, on how frugally the U.S. public can be persuaded to act. For Mr. Eccles, inflation's causes and cure are as broad as the U.S. economy...
...ratty London warehouse, pasting labels on bottles. "Dickens' whole career was an attempt to digest these early shocks and hardships, to explain them to himself, to justify himself in relation to them, to give an intelligible and tolerable picture of a world in which such things could occur." Wilson demonstrates that the novels are powerful and bitter social criticism; that the Dickens character gallery contains ever more pitiless portraits of Victorian archetypes: the mealymouthed, blood-squeezing merchant, the vapid doll, the turncoat self-made man, and the soul-destroying shrew; that Dickens progressed from social to psychological, almost metaphysical...
...toads. A brightly splotched variety lives in Arizona's Painted Desert, a drab single-toned variety on the drab soil of Oregon, a white variety on the white alkali soil of the Amargosa Desert, a black variety on the West's black lava belts. Such adaptations sometimes occur before the very eyes of biologists: during the industrialization of Germany a black moth replaced a former pale variety in factory areas...