Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington Howes who testified that he had been "proud" of the service under private contractors, that cancellation had been actively pushed by lobbyists who "came in hosts, like a cloud of grasshoppers." Astute questioning by Senator Austin forced him to admit that at a meeting with airmail contractors last autumn-a meeting not unlike the "spoils conferences" which cost them their contracts-he had sought their "advice and consent" before cutting appropriations under a reduced budget. It was, he thought, the "wise and decent thing to do." Of mail operations under the Brown regime he said: "It was a very...
...eleven-year sunspot cycle was ushered in last autumn when Mount Wilson observers spotted two faint spots too far from the solar equator to be survivors of the old cycle, too small to have any effect on earth. Last week near the sun's eastern edge erupted a whirling blot 16,000 miles across. Astronomers predicted magnetic storms and poor radio reception during the twelve days before the sun's rotation wheeled it out of sight, thought it might grow big enough to be seen with the unaided eye through smoked glass...
Light-haired, blue-eyed, with a long, lean, handsome face, wearing grey trousers and a green varsity sweater, he strode across Dartmouth's campus from honor to honor. Each autumn he played an "iron man" game at guard on the football team, each winter swam for the varsity, each spring hurled weights on the track team. And each spring his classmates re-elected him president. In junior year he was chosen president of the junior honor society, Green...
When senior year came last autumn his world outdid itself to honor him. The faculty which had already made him a Senior Fellow, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key. Sportswriters named him on All-Eastern football teams. Varsity swimmers and trackmen chose him captain. His Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers made him their president. His classmates, who had already elected him their president, put him in the presidency of their honor society, Casque & Gauntlet. Dartmouth at large chose him to head the student governing body. When he went up before a Rhodes Scholarship committee last autumn, it saw at once...
Best feature idea Editor Patterson ever had was to fatten the size of the Sunday comic section. Because he felt that the encroachment of comic advertising had made the real funny strips too small, he ordered the section increased from eight to 16 pages last autumn. He reckoned that the addition might bring a 50,000 circulation gain. Instead the Sunday circulation, which then averaged 2,000,000, leaped enormously every Sunday until last month when it hit 2,313,000, a gain of more than 500,000 over last spring. Advertising, daily and Sunday, also gained enormously...