Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given the power to regulate margin requirements. Fortnight ago, sensing the growing speculative fever, Chairman Eccles upped maximum margin requirements from 45% to 55% (TIME, Feb. 3). Some bankers believe that even if the Board shut down, as it can. on all market credit, a fancy boom could occur on a cash basis. Their point is that while credit may be shut off at one spigot it might still flow at another, spill into the market since as soon as it is disbursed by check one man's credit becomes another man's cash...
...cure for most cases of morphine addiction appeared in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, in an article by Drs. Theophil Klingmann & William Hillebrand Everts of Ann Arbor, Mich. Although there are not many more than 100,000 narcotic addicts in the U. S., they occur in every section of society and corrupt their friends. Most of the addicts take morphine...
...drift of U. S. opinion, they promoted it to front pages, began editorially looking down their noses at the U. S. "The shock millions of Americans received when they read the news of Lindbergh's departure," pontificated the London Daily Herald, "is comparable only to what would occur in Britain should the Prince of Wales announce he was no longer secure in his own country...
...simple," a malignant disease of the mind brought by resignation to the monotony of institutionalization. Now, time, considered abstractly, is nothing. Man is the only animal who seems to be cognizant of it, and even then only finds it a means of measuring the lapse between the incidents which occur to his ego, and thus give him an identity in life. It is the lack of individuality of the ingredients which go to form institutional life which foster and aggravate "stir-simple"-ness. It is by keeping abreast of the times and keeping alive my interest in my country...
...forms, one of which does not melt until heated to nearly 212°F. Under the increased pressures announced last week, two more kinds of ice are formed, one of which can be made hotter than boiling water without melting. Professor Bridgman reasoned that even more fundamental changes might occur in his materials if he could squeeze and twist them at the same time. Therefore instead of letting the vertically opposed cylinders (1¼ in. in diameter) compress the substance directly, he inserted between them a flat, hard steel block, ground microscopically smooth on its upper and lower sides. Between...