Word: occured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industrial plant of a new, 37-mm. automatic anti-aircraft gun appeared recently. The Department's goal (now outmoded) was for 1,250-plus 90-mm. anti-aircraft guns. Aside from four test models, none had been produced last week and quantity production won't occur till 1942. And the British think the 90-mm. gun will fall 6,000 feet short of the necessary range for fighting modern bombers...
...critical work of each section is done by assistants, usually first-year graduate students who have had little opportunity to criticise even their own stuff. The course should be well pruned so that the three regular men could handle the work, or else more competent instructors imported. "Conferences" occur once a month. These could be made more frequent if lectures were limited to one a week, and fuller criticism, the personal touch so necessary to make a composition course tick, would bring water to the thirsty lips of floundering writers. And the three sections could be divided into three...
...Dean's Office advises students who have failed to secure rooms in a House at this time to avoid making definite plans which would prevent them from accepting an assignment to a House as vacancies occur. Last year about 100 men on the waiting list had obtained assignments to the Houses by the opening of College in September and further openings occured during the College year. It is expected that this year's already low quota of disappointed aspirants will be still further reduced...
Minor Shocks Occur...
According to the new theory, which postulates that the rocks may break in deep quakes where confining pressure is great, the flowing rock breaks and quickly heals again. In the surface quakes, the break is not healed, and readjustments occur as hundreds of minor shocks...