Word: occured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corpse off the roof. When police find it on the sidewalk, they do not guess about the murder. He is rewarded not by the actress's devotion but by a mean trick such as real colyumists have given the public to understand is particularly likely to occur in Manhattan's theatre district. The actress marries someone else and the colyumist is forced to fall back upon the affections of a platonic friend who laughs at all his wisecracks (Ann Dvorak...
...planes is the sound of throbbing overtones above the drone of the engines. "Waah-waah-waah" the engines sing. Nervous passengers imagine something is wrong. Seasoned travelers are made drowsy, are often annoyed by the monotonous chant, as by the clickety-clack of train wheels. Airmen know that "beats" occur because the propellers are not perfectly synchronized; that vibrations are harmful to the engines. Unless a pilot has an exceptionally good ear, he can rarely adjust his engines to perfect unison. (A difference of 10 r.p.m. will cause "beats...
Jawbones. Within each half of the upper jawbone (maxilla) is a sinus. Here occur one out of every 100 cancers. Dr. William Thomas Peyton of the University of Minnesota discourages mere surgery for the treatment of this cancer because "surgery alone, total excision of the maxilla, carries a high mortality (15% to 40%), and results in very few, if any, permanent cures. With proper combination of surgery and radium five-year cures may be obtained in 10% of all cancers of the antrum coming for treatment...
...Everything is relative," cabled the New York Times's Editor Frederick T. Birchall from London last week, "and the British remember what few outsiders realize, that the population of India is more than 350,000,000. Moreover these disturbances between Moslems and Hindus occur annually at the Moslem festival of Moharram (New Year) which as an occasion provocative of rowdyisms is comparable to the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland a generation...
Another section of the laboratory will be used for demonstrating vibration phenomena as they occur in machinery and in buildings. One machine is to be used for studying the effect of damping torsional vibrations in the crank shafts of reciprocating engines of industrial machinery...