Word: occured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pessimists who were wondering whether the notorious Griswold had an equal at Springfield, Poughkeepsie, or in any of the other places reported as the site for this year's race, may now rest assured that the only thing different about the 1941 festivities is that they occur a week earlier...
...Constantine is not the only case where through political events Christianity has come into sudden power after long years of struggling growth. After the victory at Tolbiac 1,445 years ago, heathen Clovis and his army of 3,000 Franks were baptized in gratitude. Something not far different might occur in China. If anything should happen to bring the U.S. and Britain into active shooting war at China's side, enthusiasm for their allies might make millions of Chinese receptive converts to Christianity...
...believes in voluntary mediation for the present, and it has received justified praise for staving off the extremists, by setting up a board not from the outset hostile to the needs and aspirations of labor. But even voluntary mediation is hardly the solution. Where arbitration is possible, strikes seldom occur. The causes of the present strike wave are a matter for action rather than mediation. Profits and prices have been going up in the war boom. Wages have not. The worker's dollar won't buy what it used to, and his employer won't raise his wages...
...newly-chosen week end has been the customary time set in past years. This season, however, Andrew Welch's committee planned to select a date a week earlier than final exams. As finally named, the Jubilee will occur six days before the first exam...
Take care of yourself Johnny. When you get leave I'll meet you in New York, and we'll see a comedy--the funniest one we can find. Right now I have a class. Does it ever occur to you that all this education may be for nothing? But then again, it may be for everything. . . . All my love. --From the Vassar Miscellany News...