Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey last autumn the plan received its first field test. Troops were not used, but lines of communication and Staffs were actually set up by the First and Second Army commands, to operate under War conditions...
Conductor Brico dealt with women who were eager but inexperienced. Nucleus of her organization was a small group of nine young players who wanted her advice last autumn for a radio program. Their talent impressed her. She visualized a big ladies' band that would be known as the New York Woman's Symphony Orchestra. With her dark eyes alight she went out on a hunt for more musicians, marched on the White House where she persuaded the President's wife to head her list of sponsors...
...York World. Both men left great wealth with which schools of journalism were established in their names: the Medill School at Northwestern University in Chicago; the Pulitzer School at Columbia in Manhattan. The Pulitzer School made news last fortnight by announcing that its course will be shortened next autumn from two years to one, that only graduate students will be admitted...
...Force. Few months afterward he flew back to England in record time. Later he made a second trip, settled down to a job as commercial pilot in Australia, got his face permanently scarred when he dashed into a burning plane to save a passenger after a crash. Last autumn tall, rangy Lieut. Scott came to world fame when he flew to Australia once more, won the MacRobertson Trophy Race and ?20,000. Last week in Paris he was given what everybody expected: the Harmon Trophy as No. 1 airman...
...film and the "sprocket" or "flywheel" method of reproduction, which were universally displacing older systems. He sued three exhibitors, aiming behind them at the makers of their equipment (R.C.A. Photophone and Western Electric). A Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his claim. The defendants appealed to the Supreme Court. Last autumn the Supreme Court refused to review the lower court's findings...