Word: occured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spontaneous. Successful spontaneity is something earned by great genius or worked through to, by great effort. The failure of spontaneity is written in the unevenness of Gerassi's paintings not only from one to the next, but at times within a picture. A telltale sign is the smudges which occur in various places where the artist has tried to correct himself. For this reason, as well as others, the "Fighting Cocks," a brilliant picture, strikes me as more satisfying than the long bird that hangs to its left...
Originally, the University had attempted to secure approval of a plan which would reduce the college ROTC program to three years and increase the summer camp period from six to 12 weeks. The majority of tactical instruction would, according to the proposal, occur during the summer camp...
...caused by proprietary preparations whose ingredients are not listed on the label. So even if a doctor is called at once, he may not know whether to treat the victim for acid or alkali, arsenic or strychnine poisoning. For such dilemmas, the book counsels: "As soon as vomiting occurs, or if it does not occur within a few minutes, give the patient several teaspoonfuls of 'universal antidote' "-a mixture of two parts activated charcoal, one part magnesium oxide and one part tannic acid...
...Essene scrolls are closer in feeling and language to the Gospel of St. John than to any other part of the New Testament. And words that seem almost like a paraphrase of John's famous Prologue occur in the Rule of the Community: "And by His knowledge, everything has been brought into being. And everything that is, He established by His purpose; and apart from Him nothing is done." Professor William F. Albright of Johns Hopkins has pointed out that many phrases are duplicated in both, and in both the dualistic coupling of opposites recurs again and again - light...
...many, such as harelip, clubfoot and similar malformations, which may be congenital (in that a child has them at birth) but which are not, so far as is known, the result of defective genes, and therefore are not predetermined at conception. They are caused by events, still unknown, occurring during life in the womb, and some of them can be repaired by surgery. Many have no proved relation to heredity, e.g., eczema, psoriasis, allergic diseases, migraine, stuttering. Others are known to occur more commonly in some families than in others, such as diabetes and nearsightedness. "Another large group," Kemp notes...