Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narrow margin, it is evident that only a slightly increased amount of waste would turn the scale. It is the endeavor to avoid waste which sometimes results in a dish being used up before every one who may order it has been served. This has been known to occur even in the best hotels and clubs...
...last year at the lowest rate in ten years, namely, an average of about eight dollars and a half for twenty-one meals. Any surplus resulting from the Dining Hall operation prior to 1932-33 was set aside for equipment replacements and renewals and to cover deficits which might occur in the future. In 1933 about four-fifths, and in 1934 the whole of the surplus was used for Student...
...close to 100,000 trials to back up his results, and he does not call the averages markedly significant until they are well above 7.5 per 25. The lumped results of five subjects comprising 13,750 trials show an average of 9. The improbability that these results could occur by chance, Dr. Rhine feels, is equal to the improbability suggested by Physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, viz., if an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might accidentally write all the books in the British Museum...
...crossing by the Dow-Jones rail average of the 37 to 38.50 price level would constitute an auspicious augury for the bull forces in the market. Should this occur it is probable that the industrials will touch the 106-107 level before meeting serious resistance. From all indications the rise is about to be resumed with the steel, rubber, and liquor stocks in the van. Only quick turn-traders need be apprehensive of a reaction as the market shows no signs of a possible top. Should a topping formation occur, there will be plenty of time for swing followers...
Infantile paralysis, also called poliomyelitis, is caused by a virus which destroys muscle-controlling nerves, mostly in the spinal cord. Eighty percent of cases occur in children under ten years, 98% in children under 15 years. The U.S. contains 37,000,000 boys and girls under 15 years...