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Word: occurs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several events would continue to occur each week-day night, but a clearing house could keep two forums, appealing to men with the same interests, from being scheduled for the same evening. Otherwise, a group may invite a speaker and then have to explain to him why almost no audience showed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Chance to Hear | 11/15/1950 | See Source »

...general preoccupation with trivia-I mean Coke-machines, launderettes . . . laxatives and baseball-I construed as the American attempt to exclude the bigger reality. If you have a lot of little gadgets to divert attention, the larger issues are unlikely to occur to you, and existence is less satisfying but a damn sight more comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bronx Cheer (Oxon.) | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Telescopic observation will occur, when weather permits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory Meetings | 10/26/1950 | See Source »

...discussion on "Crime in the United States" will occur on December 8, but as yet no speakers have been selected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lattimore, Mrs. Pandit Talk On Asia in November Forum | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...saucer; I refer you to the item on pages 413-414 of Astronomy and Cosmogony (the Cambridge University Press 1929) by Sir James Jeans. It might just be that the "disc" became so shaped only after rotating at a highly excessive speed, which you will find will occur to any oblate spheroid when a critical speed of rotation is reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1950 | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

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