Word: occured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, a district court set a legal precedent for all France, ordered the government to pay damages to parents of eight local schoolchildren who developed abscesses in 1949 as a result of compulsory vaccination against TB. ¶ Manhattan Obstetrician Alan F. Guttmacher reported that multiple births (twins or better) occur far more frequently among Negroes than whites, run highest among women 35 to 39 years old. The incidence of quadruplets among whites is once in 570,196 births, among Negroes once in 237,897. For triplets, the current ratio is one to 9,828 births among whites...
...undergraduates said that the idea was originated in the Student Council. They added that the Council dropped the proposal on learning that the Administration would consider sponsorship by the Council as official endorsement. The University, they explained, did not want to be responsible for any accidents that might occur...
...illustration of their principle, Brown and Wilson, both specialists in entomology, described one kind of jungle ant which breakfasts at nine on other insects. By noon, it is asleep while a cousin species hunts for similar insects. No fights, occur, they stated...
...This is a new missionary field," says the National Council. "America today is a business society. Often our most meaningful experiences in life occur at work. Because of its increasingly competitive tempo, our business life is one area in which religious principles are in danger of being excluded...
...flowers and vegetables in many a South African garden patch is an innocent-looking weed called dagga. Dried and smoked like marijuana, a close relative, it induces a dreamy recklessness that can spur men to acts of terrible savagery. Nearly one-fourth of the rapes, murders and maulings that occur in the slums of South Africa's great cities are blamed on dagga...