Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nonetheless, Dr. Cumming's staff recommended that the University of Virginia, located at Charlottesville where infantile paralysis has been heavily concentrated, remain closed this autumn...
Dropped this autumn for that reason was University of West Virginia's medical school at Morgantown. Dropped last year and again blacklisted this year were the medical schools of University of Georgia at Augusta and of University of Mississippi at University...
Eight other schools change deans this autumn. At Yale, intramural policies forced out Dr. Milton Charles Winternitz, 50, brought in Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, 47. Wisconsin's new dean, Dr. William Shainline ("Dr. Billy") Middleton, 45, sharpens students' wits by passing a brown derby from dullard to dullard throughout the term, finally presents it to his class as a memorial to their intelligence...
...GEORGIA'S GEORGE He was absolutely certain. buy cotton that no one else wants at the price. Of the three cotton loans made by the Government, two have been disastrous. The first, at 16? a Ib., made by Herbert Hoover's Federal Farm Board in the autumn of 1929, resulted in the Government's acquiring several millions of bales of cotton at a price at which cotton has never sold since.- The second, at io/ a Ib., made by the New Deal in 1933, was a success because the price climbed to 12?; and the Government could...
...years ago Frank Shields was usually described as a foolhardy play boy. Cannier as well as more handsome than most of his confreéres, he profited from his tennis fame by getting a Hollywood contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer last autumn, spent the winter trying to act and flattering young cinema executives by playing tennis with them. In the three major tournaments he has entered this summer, Shields has indicated that he is, if anything, a shade better than he was a year ago, when he was ranked No. 1. He hits the hardest serve and probably the fastest...