Word: occured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shea did not believe them. A U. S. Forest Service official, he had been puzzled by large numbers of fires destroying timber from Louisiana to Virginia. Half of all U. S. forest fires occur in the South. Convinced that nine-tenths of them (nearly 60,000) were started on purpose, he launched an inquiry in the field of social psychology. He found a "typical area" of 440,000 acres in the southernmost spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains inhabited by 1,800 families. The forest people there admitted starting fires, but the reasons they gave were evasive or absurd...
Suddenly, by one of those crises that occur hourly in Hollywood, Wallis discovered that he needed a script for Bette Davis at once. Anatole Litvak, already scheduled to produce the next Davis film, was called in. Lewis, Robinson and Litvak trimmed the script to 180 pages. Litvak, who understands the Davis temperament, suggested alterations which would change the heroine from "a woman in love to one with more subtle complicated emotions." But the biggest Litvak contribution was to bring Bette Davis and the Duke de Praslin (Charles Boyer) together as the Duke is dying-something Novelist Field had found unnecessary...
...lost. It may well be that we shall want to intervene later, but we must first see our way more clearly than the chaotic events of this moment will permit. What is needed now is a clear-headed and realistic willingness to learn the lessons of events as they occur and to come to these events with our minds unburdened with rigid attitudes adopted in advance...
...oxygen. Many luminescent creatures secrete an easily oxidizable compound, luciferin, which is oxidized with the help of an enzyme, luciferase. The exact chemical nature of luciferin and luciferase varies from species to species-firefly luciferin, for example, is no good when mixed with luciferase from worms. The reaction may occur in special gland cells, or the animal may eject luminous material. Some deep-sea squid throw off luminous puffs to confuse attackers, but this dodge is not always effective...
...neutrals expect some sort of a blow from the Allies within the next few days," said the Boersen Zeitung. "No one knows just where it will occur but all agree that the matter already has been decided and that the Allies will trample all neutral rights...