Word: occurence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these small college advantages in varying degrees might occur in many small colleges. The unique aspect about Amherst is its "New Curriculum...
...author of the article should care for his own principles more and his indignation less. Did it not occur to you what a shameful act this article was? This is a sad precedent when we amongst ourselves stoop to such irrelevant and contemptible weapons. The essence of freedom is privacy. America will never be secure in her freedom while liberals fight back with the same weapons with which McCarthy apparently corrupts us all. The particular injustices of McCarthy are alarming (though America is pretty used to such), but far less so than his general method of politics that abolishes...
...building trades view this situation with understandable dismay. FHA has been a great stabilizing force in the industry, and both bank and builder have come to rely on it. It is the builder's FDIC; its loss could mean the same kind of chaos and demoralization that would occur if the government suddenly stopped insuring bank deposits...
...created to build apartment houses quickly and cheaply. Even with the large profits that were made, it is doubtful whether public housing could have done the building at a smaller cost to the taxpayer. No one condones the clear cases of fraud and bribery that did occur in some instances. But by and large, the builders acted, and profited, in accordance with the law. Federal Housing chief Albert Cole admitted that the builder "had a right to outguess" the appraiser if he could. Instances of inadequate, matchbox construction do appear, but they are rare. There certainly was no widespread jerry...
...onto the rope, both the monkey and the equivalent weight would be at rest: the resultant of forces exerted on the rope would be zero . . . But since we have a frictionless pulley, and since the problem was posed by that eminent mathematician, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), there would doubtless occur what is known in scientific circles as the Cheshire Cat Effect: both the monkey and the weight would disappear into the substance of this marvelous pulley-monkey tail last-and never be seen again. Q.E.D. ("Damned Queer Effect...