Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers . . ." When people objected to the Sun's reporting of murder, scandal, gossip and graft, Dana tartly retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the Divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report." City Editor John Bogart's definition became even more famous: "When a man bites a dog, that is news." To gather and write the new "human interest" stories, the Sun corralled such topflight reporters as Jacob Riis, Arthur Brisbane, Richard Harding Davis...
...Dana's orders, the Sun missed one big piece of news that Divine Providence permitted to occur. While competitors took columns, the Sun took only ten words to report an era's end in 1897: "Charles Anderson Dana, editor of the Sun, died yesterday afternoon." Under able editors, the Sun carried on until 1916, but the great fire slowly died. Then Frank Munsey, chain-store magnate and journalistic )luebeard, bought the paper. He folded Dana's evening edition, moved the morning edition to the evening and on his death in 1925 bequeathed the fading paper...
...second argument given for the current plan is the loss in rent revenue that would occur if every empty space in the Houses were filled and vacancies created in the outside dormitories. But the House system is theoretically a key part of a Harvard education. It is hard to deny the benefits of this system to qualified students because of these financial considerations...
...most such books of family reminiscences. Mr. Taylor has chosen the best of these episodes and welded them together in the play--but not without the joints showing. Consequently, there is really no plot in the usual sense, but rather a series of amusing incidences which happen to occur in the same room and to the same people...
Perhaps the best new development that could occur in history-writing would be one in which it could again be taken for granted that tyrants are under no inexorable, historical obligation to massacre their subjects...