Word: occured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solar flare is a gigantic eruption of the turbulent gases in the sun. They usually occur in areas marked by sunspots and are followed by an increase in the cosmic radiation streaming toward the earth. Only five flares have been observed thus far, and last week's released the highest concentration of cosmic rays ever recorded. While scientists rushed to launch balloons loaded with photographic film and radio-recording equipment, the explosion was producing some weird and widespread effects. Short-wave communication about the globe was severely crippled, and telephone communications between New York, London and Rome were totally...
...program will be live, but, since it will be telecast on a Sunday, it will be necessary to film parts of the show to give a complete picture of the University. The filmed scenes will include life in the Yard, the Houses, classes, and other events which will occur here during the course of this week...
Behind these new regulations is the N.C.A.A.'s basic conviction that intercollegiate boxing "de-emphasize power and emphasize skill." The Preamble to the Collegiate Rules adds that "a knockdown or knockout, should it occur, is considered incidental...
...spontaneous, secret, planned mass meeting of the newly-formed Harvard Poujadists will occur in Harvard Yard a few minutes after noon next Tuesday to protest the recently announced rise in College tuition, Charles Thomas '56, Poujadist spokesman, announced late last night...
...Dickens' best-documented accounts of disease occur in Bleak House, in which he describes the paraplegia of Grandfather Smallweed, who is "in a helpless condition as to his lower, and nearly so as to his upper limbs," and the senile dementia of his wife, who suffers from "such infantine graces as a total want of observation, memory, understanding and interest, and an eternal disposition to fall asleep over the fire and into...