Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next time the Harvard women's ice hockey team and Mr. Zucker "roll in," please have them get in touch with me so I can arrange for their participating in and experiencing the great range of activities and events that do occur at Colby. It is my obligation to help stamp out this affliction known as "urban provincialism" complicated by conceit and dreary condescension. Peter Kingsley Director, Public Affairs, Colby College
...small informal dinners, which took place regularly when the house was actually lived-in, only rarely take place there now--it is reserved for the important, exclusive events. Kathleen A. Montague, assistant manager of the Faculty Club, says that they occur only when "Mr. Bok is having lunch with God, or somebody very important, and instead of coming to the Faculty Club, he'd have it over there...
...half decades earlier the Decembrist Movement of 1825 took place. Thus the current system has gone longer without an attempted radical change than any time within the last two centuries. This is not meant to say that a change or an attempt at one will of necessity occur, but it does suggest the magnitude of the pressures for change which have been held back over all these years...
...because nobody was there to develop it. Such actions as Congress' proposed bill and the Ed School's retraining program are welcome efforts in an otherwise bleak situation, but they represent only a beginning. Major strides in filling high school staffs with competent math and science teachers will only occur when these teaches receive higher salaries. As long as they are paid paltry amounts for this important task young and would-be teachers alike will continue to abandon the teaching profession for high-paying jobs in business, industry or medicine. The problem can be solved by having money poured into...
...geopolitics there convinced him that the key to power on the Continent was control of Eastern Europe. The only answer to Hitler, therefore, lay in building a superior war machine, then getting it across the ocean and into Germany as soon as possible. Wedemeyer wanted D-day to occur by early summer 1943, a year before the invasion of France actually took place...