Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give anything you can." Organist Firmin Swinnen swung into "Onward Christian Soldiers." By dozens, by hundreds, by thousands, the Episcopalians trooped up to the altar. Singing fervently as they marched, they pulled $10, $5 and $1 bills from their wallets, fluttered them on the altar steps like autumn leaves. When the last of 5,000 people had passed by, Bishop Perry shuffled into the pile of money, lifted both hands for the congregation to kneel with him in a prayer of thanks. Then seven attendants stuffed the bills into bags, carried them out to be counted-$7,916.56. Meanwhile...
...Groton, Mass., members of the Groton Hunt Club complained that all autumn they have been riding after a fox which, as soon as it is cornered, turns and chases their hounds...
...There is no end of wire-pulling to be clone if daughter is to trip the light fantastic at the Autumn Ball, up in Tuxedo Park, the Junior Assemblies...
...hardly were paint & plaster dry on the new mansions when Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness came along with some $10,000,000 and an idea that Yale should be broken up into small residential colleges on the English plan. Last autumn his idea became a reality. Each upperclassman was required to eat at least ten meals per week, at $5.50, in his college. For $2.50 more he could have all his meals there. Fraternity treasuries felt the pinch as members dropped away from dining rooms, their chief sources of income. Mortgage payments came hard, and so did the fat sums which...
...likes to wander in the country or sail a small boat, plays the violin with concert skill. Last March he was put on the official Nazi black list, deprived of German citizenship. Though he has Swiss citizen ship, Einstein has lived in the U. S. since last autumn, goes each winter to work at the Flexner-directed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he lives in the seclusion he likes, with his comfortable Hausfrau...