Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share. Dozens of stocks of huge companies sold for less than half of what somebody had once said they were worth. So nonsensical did all this seem that some brokers refused to sell out their customers even when technically they might have. But the awful expected began to happen when one brokerage house, John J. Bell & Co., was suspended. What failures loomed, none could say. Would the nightmare, to many tragically cruel, never end? As shades of Tuesday evening fell, it seemed again that the worst was past. A belated ticker recorded gains in significant stocks. New York Central...
...suggestion is that someone blackmail Prof. Seymour and send him a black-hand note to the effect that he leave the blueprints of the House Plan under a certain elm at midnight or something will happen. Once the blueprints were out of the way, the undergraduates could do almost anything. --Yale News...
Those who have made the various varsity teams become available for work as graduate coaches at the Point or as coaches for corps area, department or regimental teams as the case may be, wherever they happen to be stationed...
...small amount of intoxicating liquor does not realize the gravity of the situation is one of the definite evils of the whole affair. The ill that may result to oneself from excess drinking, is not half so bad as that which may happen to sober members of society. The world needs fool-killers, and if the drinker injured himself alone we need not interfere...
Remarque has taken a whole reading world into the front line trenches with him, and those readers have returned with the feeling that such horrors must not happen again. Probably no book of this type has ever created such a widespread impression or worked so profoundly for the cause of peace. In eight brief months, it has become a classic. Long since translated into English and French, it is now being published in twenty-four languages, so that those who have fought may recall the horrors of war, and that those who belong to the new generations may be forewarned...