Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trial heats in the 100-yard dash, 120-yard high hurdles, 220-yard dash, 220-yard low hurdles, broad jump, high jump, pole vault, shot put, and javelin, will be run off May 4. The finals in these events and the half-mile, mile, and two-mile, will occur...
...present a first balloting will occur on April 22, 1928, and a second vote will be taken one week later in electoral districts where no candidate achieved a majority...
Finally the Conservative Daily Telegraph ably summed up London's reaction to Chicago thus: "Scenes like these have never occurred in Europe within the mem ory of the living, and couldn't possibly occur. We are looking at a social organization which has united the riches and luxury of the most modern civilization with the manners and customs of particularly disorderly mining camps...
Cholera strikes suddenly. Intense thirst is followed by acute cramps and collapse about the third day, when most deaths occur. During the collapse the face turns black, the skin becomes dry and hard, the voice fades. Early and extreme rigidity of the corpse is a striking feature of cholera and the origin of much superstition. Frequently the corpse will sit bolt upright on the stretcher as it is being carried to the morgue, or rise on its cot at home...
...girl's bewildered mother. The situation in this little group became tense with the arrival of Claudia Kitts, friend to Janet, and foolish Edgar Fuller, Geoffrey's visitor. Claudia looked at Geoffrey Wareham with timid but tenacious adoration. Squealing soulful come-ons, she caused a scene to occur wherein Geoffrey slapped Miss Rodney's cheeks. Further complications were engendered when the pasty Mr. Fuller made a pass at Claudia. Not until her hitherto unmentioned husband arrives upon the scene, thereby precipitating one of the most comic lines of contemporary drama, does the demure insanity of March Hares...