Word: occuring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From his office in the Palazzo Chigi, Italian Foreign Office, Benito telephoned to the Prefects all over Italy, told them that he would hold them personally responsible for any 'disturbance that might occur. The Fascist Directorate,. hierarchy of the Fascist Party, with Benito interpreting the role of Zeus, ordered peremptorily all Fascist leaders to keep the peace. No disturbances took place...
...Helena, Mont., there died from an attack of bronchial pneumonia a distinguished soldier, General Samuel B. M. Young, in the 85th year of his age. His career could hardly be called spectacular, but it was one of those lengthy records of achievement which occur every now and then in the Army...
...opposition" of the Earth and Mars, as their nearest approach to each other is termed in astronomical language, took place last week with a maximum excitement on the part of the public and a minimum excitement on the part of astronomers. These oppositions occur about every 26 months, but every 15 or 16 years there is an opposition when the two bodies ate nearer each other than usual, and about every hundred years or so there is an opposition at which the two planets are extremely near together-about 34,600,000 miles. This occasion belonged to the last group...
...earth. The actual date of nearest approach is Aug. 23. At this time the planet is only 35 million miles away as against a possible distance of about 63 million miles when the two planets are at opposite sides of their orbits. These approaches, such as the present, occur every 26 months or so, but there is a variation of some 2 million miles in the nearness depending on what part of their eliptical orbits the two planets may be at the moment of juxtaposition. When the two planets are "in opposition," as this is called, in last August...
Apparently one of the chief ambitions of the New York Reserve Bank is to surprise Wall Street. The character of its actions is usually forecasted in the financial centre correctly enough, 'but no one can ever tell ahead of time when they will occur. Usually changes in the rediscount rate are made Wednesday, yet Aug. 6 came and went without developments. Then the next day the Bank quite unexpectedly cut its rediscount rate from...