Word: occured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gratifying to know that such a large percentage of Americans believe in God. However . . . did it ever occur to the editors of the Catholic Digest to ask these subjects "why" they believe in God? It would certainly be much more gratifying if the answer was obtained and the percentage of valid reasons stayed the same...
...daze of his own: he can never remember exactly what he did during his finest solos ("When I'm playing my best I never know my fingers are there"). But as a man who is conscious of his subconscious, he has decided that his best flights of fancy occur only when he can "get through...
...granting a license to the groups because "two or three" calls of protest had come into City Hall. John Harrington, head of the licensing bureau, said yesterday, "the only thing the city is worried about is an outbreak of violence, and if the police can be satisfied none will occur, the license will be granted." It was Harrington who held up the Boston Film Society's permit to show the film last week...
...What will DeVoto's job be if a calamity were to occur tomorrow and Stevenson elected . . . perhaps he will be head...
...fact, to judge from Sironia, Texas in those days must have been a dang sight wilder than even now. In the lives of Cooper's 30-odd major characters, there occur a flood, several murders and suicides, and a castration party. One whorehouse burns down, one Negro is burned alive, one changeling is introduced into a childbed...