Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Osservatore Romano pointed out that this was not the first time that the Car of Thespis had offended. They had opened their second summer season in Rome itself with this same play, despite the fact that the Vatican Concordat expressly provided that the Fascist state would allow nothing to occur in Rome to injure its position as the home of Catholicism. Present at this heretical performance, and publicly applauding was none less than Il Duce himself...
...didn't occur to me when I composed the sentence that it might have a political bearing. It was used solely because it aptly illustrated use of the singular subject and plural verb...
...expenditure of a quarter-million dollars did not put Mrs. McCormick into one of the red leather chairs in the Senate. It simply gave her the privilege of making a formal bid for it in the November election. Between now and then another campaign must occur which will undoubtedly require many more thousands of dollars...
...casual observer, however, it will perhaps occur that the situation at Harvard and Yale is by no means unique. A survey of wage scales at other colleges would undoubtedly reveal conditions more scandalous than exist at New Haven and Cambridge. Will some busybody at Princeton please keep the ball rolling by informing us what a square yard of clean floor is worth down in New Jersey...
...total eclipse will occur in the United States in a band one-half mile wide extending from San Francisco Bay to Montana...