Word: occured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected that dispute concerning the valuations arrived at would occur, especially on the part of the ' railroad companies themselves. The Union Pacific and other roads are preparing to settle the question of their correct valuation through the courts. The whole subject bristles with auditing, legal and financial problems, and litigation on the subject will probably follow for many years...
...impulse to elaborate church ceremonial has swept France since the War. Some churches have introduced a fanfare of trumpets at the mass as in the days of the Kings. Many musical novelties occur...
...most interesting episode recently has been Secretary Mellon's proposal to scale down income taxes. Of all the cheerful news which has occurred, or been made to occur, this Fall, Mr. Mellon's adroit move has been the soundest, the most genuinely optimistic, and the most popular with the rank and file of businessmen...
...example, not long ago Manhattan journals printed authoritatively that Germany had ceased passive resistance in the Ruhr. Actually no such thing had occurred and did not occur until a fortnight later. Another journal recently received a despatch from its foreign correspondent to the effect that Queen Zita was living near Vienna. The truth was that she had not budged from Spain...
...course, impossible to assert categorically that evasions of the eligibility rules never occur. Among the thousands of college students that engage in athletics in American universities, there are undoubtedly a few who have succeeded in hoodwinking the authorities. But the assertion of Commissioner Tigret, on the strength of these isolated cases, that the spirit of professionalism rules intercollegiate sport, is an appreciate overstatement of fact; and to imply that the president of the colleges involved deliberately wink at such a state of affairs is to border on the ridiculous...