Word: occurence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans to conduct more air raid tests and blackouts in the near future. Students will be asked to serve as wardens during these tests. Also if attacks occur, he will order all students to clear the streets and do rescue work...
Believing that "a woman past 35 needs a man's company all the more," oldtime Cinemactress Miriam Hopkins, 46, went to her astrologer, got the cheering news that her next big romance "would occur sometime in 1951." Said she: "I was so excited to hear that that I rushed out and bought...
...north of the Stadium. They are wrong to think that they are any closer to reality than the thousands who will stomp their feet in the Stadium this afternoon and will cry for the ridiculous or the impossible, and will be genuinely disappointed when it does not occur. They are as wrong as the men who run the colleges which buy the best football players to impress the men who are wrong in their first assumptions...
Rumor shrouds the tombs thicker than their sagging ivy wines. Campus reports say that Skull and Bones men will leave the room when their society is mentioned; that firemen once entered Berzelius to douse a blaze and had to be accepted as members; that hair-raising and lascivious practices occur inside the meeting-place vaults. Actually the "spooks"--as sour-grapes outsiders call them--take their membership very seriously. Henry L. Stimson always stayed with fellow Bonesmen in Paris, rather than with the ambassador; Professor F. O. Matthiessen laid his Bones Key on a farewell note before jumping...
...works because of a fundamental difference between music and speech. It takes advantage of the fact that speech is full of extremely short 'silences' or pauses, like the usually unnoticed but perceptible pause between the 'S' and "T" in the word 'Stay.' These pauses occur much me frequently in speech, and when they occur, they are much more abrupt then in music...