Word: occuring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Similar paradoxes occur repeatedly. The long ballot and a neat system of gerrymandering have resulted in unbroken GOP control of the General Court and the Congressional delegations for twenty years or more. Yet Massachusetts' electoral votes have not been in the Republican column since the Coolidge-Davis race of 1924. Democratic governors won easily from 1920 through 1936, but never had an Executive Council they could call their...
...According to the Crimson survey, the lines slow down at a number of points, chief among these being at the coffee and milk section of the counter. More help to keep the coffee and milk pouring faster is the answer here. Other pauses in the usually fast-moving lines occur when students have to help themselves to items such as butter and when refills of food trays don't arrive promptly from the kitchen...
...into broken-down trolleys, standing in line for tea, and going without a new shirt that he was apt to buy a cheap bottle of vino and say to hell with it all. Or, working at 75? a day in Lota's undersea coal mines where cave-ins occur almost daily, and living in a hillside of hovels where each year more babies die than are born, he turned to Communism...
...Amiable Winkie Barr was parting amicably from 250-year-old St. John's. An ex-Rhodes Scholar, he thinks Oxford University has the right idea in insisting on small colleges. Says he: "Learning is a kind of contagion. The group must be compact enough for the contagion to occur. I don't want this one [St. John's] to get any bigger. We've always assumed we would start another college when it got too big." St. John's, which graduated only seven students during one wartime year, expects to enroll 225 students this September...
...Demons," under the leadership of a "Devil's Prelate," which practised the Black Mass in lonely country houses and Milan hotel rooms. The bare fact: for at least the 15th time in five years, consecrated hosts had been stolen from a church near Milan. (Authorities believe such thefts occur frequently without being reported to the police; also, that old women and children are bribed to carry hosts out in their mouths. Valuable jeweled pyxes, in which the wafers are kept, have not been taken...