Word: occurence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course someone will always raise the cry of immorality. But what can occur between eight and eleven can also happen in the afternoon. It is significant that Yale authorities extended week-end room permissions to eleven o'clock because they felt the boys at New Haven were old enough to behave themselves...
...four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea. Beck found that the substance had a density of 18.63 (density of lead: 11.34). A commercial chemist in Albuquerque confirmed their suspicions that the chunk was solid metallic uranium, which does not occur in nature, has to be refined from uranium ore by elaborate processes...
...than the conditions provided by this Convention. What is equally important is to get it signed by nations which today leave correspondents fairly free, and yet there is some danger that these countries might change to a drastic censorship and other severe restrictions. This calamity is less likely to occur if they sign the News Convention. The Convention will help hold the line...
...time," he stated, "that the U.S. reconsider its ideas about the most appropriate way to finance the defense program. In view of the fact that the kind of taxes that Congress considers it expedient to levy are bad for the economy, the temporary bulge in defense expenditures that will occur during the next two or three years should be financed by non-inflationary borrowing...
...brainwave machine" (electroencephalograph, to doctors) is now used mainly after people get seriously ill and doctors have to find out what's wrong. Two Cleveland neurologists report that the machine can do better than that: it can spot some kinds of crackups before outward physical signs occur (by noting abnormal patterns of brain-wave pulsation). Their recommendation: use the machine widely on railroad engineers, airplane pilots and bus drivers, and on business executives responsible for "vast undertakings...