Word: occured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Calvin Coolidge: "It is an advantage to a President to know he is not a great man." This "advantage" is a heritage of the Taft clan. The Tafts never sound their own horn. It doesn't occur to them; besides, they are usually too busy with the next...
...ironic rebuke to the Prime Minister in his declaration: "I did not select my colleagues [in the War Office] because they were complacent or supinely acquiescent. I selected the strongest men I could find, and I respected them most when they were most outspoken in Council. ... It did not occur to me to consider that we were making the Army too democratic to fight for democracy. ... No conflict of view has there been, so far as I know, no conflict of view or policy with many of my colleagues in the Government upon any point concerning my department or otherwise...
...Indian charity a book of verses called The Desert, and the lines quoted by His Majesty are in her verse God Knows. After further inquiring, the BBC challenged the Telegraph's, God Knows theory, went on the air with an announcement that the lines occur not in any verse but in the prose introduction to The Desert-of which nobody seemed able to find a copy...