Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program, the biggest in their history. Example: California's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was spending $500 million on expansion, part of it to transmit power from the Government's Shasta Dam. It hoped to boost transmission enough so that last year's power shortage would not occur again. In addition, the Government hoped to step up California's Central Valley Project's capacity enough to take care of another big spurt in demand...
Even a group of musicians skilled and trained as the members of the Boston Symphony cannot play consistently well. Really thrilling performances occur at those rare instances when a carefully trained orchestra, inspired by the conductor and the music, plays "above its head" in performance...
...lived quietly in a great, grey Paris mansion. He was a passionate hunter and a bad shot. He maintained a private game preserve near Paris, but, said a friend last week, he "never went in for displays of wealth. That would not occur to him." In the '30s, the world was swept by a pacifist wave of indignation against the Undershafts and the De Wendels. The clamor against the "merchants of death" was largely justified, but its main effect was to keep the U.S. and Britain from being well enough prepared to prevent World...
Under the new policy, an assistant professor may once within his tenure apply for a half-year sabbatical, with full salary. Leaves will occur during the second or third year of an assistant professor's term. In no cases will leaves be granted in the final fifth year of a tenure, and only in exceptional cases in the first and fourth years, Buck explained...
According to the theory, history is a succession of such changes in social systems. The changes occur because of "contradictions " (jargon for conflicts, struggles). The changes are not just the defeat of one of the forces in contradiction, but the evolution of something new, something different from both (this is the "dialectic"). The something new is always a step upward, the evolution by violent cross-breeding of a higher type of society...