Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oppressive, so dully deafening become the throbbing pulsations that he feels as though he must collapse into himself and plunge down the abyss in which burns that unattainable, dazzling blue light. But then, in a tone of limitless melancholy, like the meaning of the wind on a rainy autumn night around the eaves of a high garret, a far-off church clock resounds. Again the throbbing abruptly falters, again the imaginary pressure is relieved, and then once more the night resumes its monotonous chant...
...leave with regret but without personal malice toward anyone," declared Dr. Walter Scott Athearn after Butler University's trustees had ousted him from its presidency last autumn (TIME. Nov. 13). Last week in Indianapolis, charging the dismissal had injured his reputation, Dr. Athearn filed suit against Butler for $100,000 damages...
Keeping the price down was obviously more to Henry Ford than an economic principle. He had already got a head-start in 1934 production while the tool & die strike bedeviled other motormakers last autumn. He had been making some 5% of his steel, could and probably would make more. Smartly he had stalled off labor troubles by raising wages long before the other companies...
...000th base on balls. Manager Joe Cronin of Washington called Detroit the team to beat. Detroit's new Manager & Catcher Mickey Cochrane, bought for $100,000 from Philadelphia, was not so sure. He and his men lost two games in a row to the Athletics, generally dismantled last autumn because they failed to make money. For the Chicago White Sox, leaving Pasadena, Calif, last week, the major question was still whether George Earnshaw would be as effective as he used to be for Philadelphia. Apparent tail-ender in the American League, this year as last, are the St. Louis...
...shortstop, Don Heffner and Red Rolfe, who last week seemed likely to be regulars this season. Heffner is a young Baltimorean who last year fielded brilliantly and had a batting average of .293 with the Baltimore Orioles. His main worry is his weight, 155-lb.; to increase it last autumn he drank a quart of cream every day. Robert Abiel Rolfe comes from Penacook, N. H., graduated from Dartmouth in 1931, batted .326 for Newark last year, when he was voted most valuable player in the International League. Redhaired, ruddy-faced, his stance in the infield is characterized...