Word: occuring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, will be able to maintain the increased rate of dividends recently voted. Thus in our judgment, the approval of the company's proposal at this time, would have little, if any, effect in causing a wider distribution of its stock among investors. Such as would occur would, in our opinion, be to the disadvantage of the investor...
...which runs above and below the mine itself. To explode the mine a ship does not have to strike the cylinder, it may touch any part of the cable, and an electrical contact will set off the dynamite. This device makes possible many explosions which would otherwise never occur, as a vessel rarely strikes the mine...
...predictions as to what the effect of the talkies on the legitimate theatre would be. "The time may come," he said, "when the actors and actresses may be driven into the talking field by the force of sheer necessity; but unless such an unfortunate state of affairs should occur, the legitimate stage, will draw, and will hold, the cream of the acting profession...
...Significance. The boredom and inertia so frequent in Author Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926) never occur in A Farewell to Arms. He has gone back to the cause of that weariness-the desolating conflict of nations. In that time bravery and rapture were gloriously commonplace, scarcely aware of the exhaustion which was to follow...
SEEING GERMANY-E. M. Newman- Funk & Wagnails ($5). This is the first travel book about Germany written since the War. Later ones will have to go far to equal it. Differences between the German Republic and Germany of the Kaisers are noted wherever they occur; in 420 pages of text there are 300 original photographs; although covering practically all Germany, Author Newman finds space for anecdotes-personal, historical, legendary. Important conclusion: Germany is one country that says "Welcome" without demanding payment at her door...