Word: occured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worst. Dr. Tsuneo Takada, 30, took samples of Ohishi's digestive juices. In them microbiologists found a flourishing growth of a yeastlike fungus, Candida (or Monilia) albicans, occasional cause of human infections, but usually in the mouth or the vagina. In a normal gut, Candida may occur without causing fermentation. But in Ohishi's repaired bowel there was a little pocket where the Candida hid, multiplied, and busily fermented carbohydrates to form alcohol...
...system, was passing directly in front of the bright star Regulus in miniature eclipse, and though the two were 400 trillion miles apart (67 light-years), the star's light would enable them to poke deep into the atmosphere of Venus. It was an opportunity that might not occur again for 1,000 years...
...chatter it was easy to forget the one question that matters to every man: How do I myself feel about the picture? Shock and confusion would not be surprising reactions; they occur as naturally as before the coruscating words of John of Patmos: "I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God. and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
...such a reaction did occur, when did significant doubt start? 33 before secondary school; 127 during secondary school; 31 in your freshman year; 13 later in college...
Results indicate, in summary, that although Harvard's influence leads to re-examination of beliefs it rarely induces a reversal of beliefs, that the period of secondary school education is the one in which occur most significant transitions from family tradition. The College thus attracts the questioning student, it does not produce...