Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every bill is first voted upon by a simple shout of "ayes" and "noes." Only in case the Speaker's decision on this vote is challenged does "division" occur. There is a great ringing of division bells for two minutes. Members come scrambling in from wherever they happen to have been?perhaps eating strawberries & cream on the Parliamentary terrace facing the Thames...
...question or bill is then put a second time. Again members shout "ayes" and "noes." Again the Speaker announces his decision. Only if he is challenged a second time does division proper occur...
...prime New Irish wife costs five yards of shells. The wife may divorce by return ing the shells. "A man can have several wives and a woman may have several hus bands, but polygamy and polyandry can not both occur in the same family. On the other hand it is the accepted social custom that a woman may have lovers and a man mistresses...
...bromide intoxication develops, closely resembling several other kinds of intoxication. The victim becomes drowsy and dull. His wits wander; his memory fails. He has hallucinations, "frequently of the colored type, such as seeing a Negro man or some dark animal." The well known bromide rash may or may not occur...
...ground tests with artificial lightning conducted by Ohio Insulator Co. upon a Barling NB3 monoplane produced no material damage, but did give rise to a belief that the psychological (also blinding, deafening) effect of a lightning flash close at hand may incapacitate a pilot long enough for disaster to occur...