Word: happens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolt to be successful in the Reich, three things will be needed. First, Germans who still believe in Hitler must feel the horrors of war; second, the Reich must suffer its first military reverses, and, finally, privations in the country must become more acute. All these things can happen by the spring of 1940. Hitlerism will perish through internal revolt...
...first Miller's was rated as just another good swing band. But last summer, when it moved to Westchester's Glen Island Casino, things began to happen. Within five months Glenn Miller's band was causing more rug-dust to fly, making more phonograph records, and playing more radio dates than Goodman and Shaw together. Last month the Chesterfield Hour conferred swing's Pulitzer Prize on Miller by signing him up to take Paul Whiteman's place, beginning Dec. 27. Last week Trombonist Miller, now undisputed King of Swing, went back to play a week...
...doubtful that all of these things will happen and that a very mediocre Bulldog eleven will transform itself into a great eleven Saturday. But any one of the three may conceivably take place when Captain Macdonald's men find themselves lined up with a Blue team facing them Saturday...
...ends with Killers Cagney and Bogart both killed. In between are too many rounds of blank cartridges to count, a darkly ominous commentator who punctuates a morality play about the somewhat dated evils of rum-running, bootlegging, highjacking, speakeasies and Prohibition with warnings that after all, they may happen again...
Through rivet holes in an after bulkhead new prisoners were shown neat stacks of barrel-sized mines; adjacent were the powder magazines. What would happen if a mishap or an enemy shell touched that hold was something they all thought about, seldom spoke of. Other anxious moments came as they listened to the ticklish task of minelaying, or as they waited in the blue, corpselike light when buzzers called the crew to battle stations...