Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When did the world's worst railroad wreck occur...
...would President Roosevelt look with dundrearies? Could Primo Camera's appearance be improved by a walrus mustache over his vast gummy mouth? Could Greta Garbo get a job as a bearded lady? Such questions may sometimes arise in the minds of presidents, prizefighters or actresses but they occur more frequently to children who answer them by defacing newspaper photographs...
...weeks ago war between Japan and the Soviet was regarded as inevitable in the near future and likely to occur in 1935; but since that time a profound and far-reaching change has supposedly taken place in Japanese foreign policy. The outward sign of this is the retirement of General Araki as Minister of War and his replacement by a man, who, in all likelihood, will confine himself to the army and make no attempt to interfere in purely political problems. Japan from now on, according to Premier Saito and Foreign Minister Hirota, will pursue a pacific foreign policy...
...unwise treatment, the mortality of delay, and the mortality of the complications that follow upon and are induced by these two things." But for childhood and old age this generality does not hold. Appendicitis is then dangerous per se. Thus although only one-third of the cases of appendicitis occur at the extremes of life, two-thirds of the deaths from the disease occur before 10 and after 40. Why this is so Surgeon Maes explained last week. The character of the appendix changes as people grow older. In the young the organ contains an abundance of lymphoid tissue, which...
...that the chance of any honestly dealt hand's consisting of an entire suit are 1 in 158,753,000.000. This means that if each of the 10,000,000 U. S. bridge players played 15 hands every day, year in & year out, a solid-suit hand would occur under the law of averages only once every three years...