Word: occurence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such developments. Here in the San Joaquin Valley, the most productive farming area in the U.S., irrigation districts which have contracted with the bureau for supplemental water have taken on a financial burden it will be impossible to carry, if a general and substantial decline in farm prices should occur...
Bland Reminder. Through all the turmoil, Washington blandly reminded everyone that some confusion was bound to occur as CMP got under way. However, the news is so bad that a few steelmen think the way out is to bring every industry under CMP, and have complete allocations. The big majority, like Bethlehem's Grace, think that CMP should control only the steel for direct arms output. The rest should be left free...
...most successful show of his career: drawings and paintings in somber greys, yellows, and greens of hollow-eyed men, women & children with thin, bony figures and a quality of patient loneliness. "My fundamental interest is human beings," he explains. "The most important moments in life are those which occur when two people feel so intensely related to one another that there is nothing to say. Words being absent, appearance is everything...
When the judge acquitted a woman of poisoning her husband, he got a second letter. "Will you never learn anything? Didn't it ever occur to you ... to inquire whether or not the old cuckold had actually taken out a ?200,000 insurance policy ... to be paid to the wife upon the husband's death?" The judge inquired. Sure enough, the woman had murdered her husband for the insurance...
...biggest previous celebration was the Tercentenary Exercises of September, 1936. Then, in 1942, the College marked the actual 300th anniversary of the first awarding of degrees. The latest Harvard "300th" to occur was the anniversary celebration last spring by the Corporation...