Happenings
['hæpəniŋz]
Examples
- The first letters he read were very formal, very carefully written and dealt almost entirely with local happenings. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He is not an inventor as much as he is a detective; he picks up the clews to certain happenings and constructs a working theory to fit them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- To some extent there has been a popular notion that many of Edison's successes have been due to mere dumb fool luck--to blind, fortuitous happenings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mutiny on the high sea may have been common a hundred years ago, but in this good year 1888 it is the least likely of happenings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Typed by Agatha