Word: occured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plate. Here Donald Nelson was of enormous help. Of a ton of newspaper clippings gossiping about his deathly struggles with military buyers, not one is wholly true. They got along from the start, and what differences they had were settled before the press heard of them. Momentary flare-ups occur, say insiders, but Nelson and his men speak the same language as the military men, particularly since he has shown them how to buy quantities in slack seasons...
...said that Turkey is prepared to back up her alliance with Great Britain and "cannot remain indifferent to foreign activities which might occur in her zone of security...
...results of a "warmongering diet". Mr. Young seems to believe that a man can never change his opinions except for the worse. Thirdly, he makes the blank statement that "the issues at stake in this war are not the slightest bit changed since its beginning." It evidently does not occur to Mr. Young that he may not have understood the "issues at stake" at the beginning of the war, and may not understand them...
...year limit, or until June 30, 1943, on the period in which the President may contract for arms and equipment for Britain. This meant little, since the House almost to a man believed the war's final turn will occur before that date...
...fond of earlobe characteristics but do not yet understand their distribution patterns. Dr. Wiener declared that the most practical means of determining parentage can be found in the inheritance patterns of the four human blood groups. "It is a simple matter," says Dr. Wiener, "to ascertain what groups can occur in the children when the groups of the parents are known." Typical cases...