Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last May from the Austrian Government in which he had been Vice-Chancellor. Last week he was still commander of the Heimwehr, chief private armed force in the country, and able to throw a spanner or two into governmental machinery. Provincial leaders of the Heimwehr, meeting to discuss their autumn program, had to decide whether to remain loyal to Starhemberg or transfer their allegiance to Starhemberg's former right hand man, Major Emil Fey. They could not lightly forget that Starhemberg had fed & clothed the Heimwehr from his own pocket until his money had run out, had then continued...
...rule has been made as a means of insurance against Boston public opinion or the sensationalism of that city's press, the self-righteous authorities responsible for it have sadly missed the boat. The most embarrassing of Harvard scandals in recent years, the Dunster House affair of last autumn and the subsequent tragedy at Winthrop, occurred when the rooms were teeming with numerous guests of both sexes...
...Cambridge, soon sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony to preach it. Still a young man, he died "of a consumption" a year later, bequeathing to the new school his library of 400 volumes and some ?800 which enabled it to open its doors as Harvard College in the autumn of 1638. Last week no one knew what Benefactor Harvard looked like or where he was buried...
World's first aerial sleeper service was started in the autumn of 1933 by Eastern Air Transport with an 18-passenger two-berth Curtiss Condor on the Newark-Atlanta run (TIME, Oct. 15, 1933). Only other U. S. airline to try the service since has been American, which started it with Condors between Los Angeles and Dallas in April 1934, found it popular (TIME, July 16, 1934). This service, no longer necessary, was discontinued last week. Other long-run airlines will probably put on service like American's new one as soon as their Douglas...
...transferred to the icebox of a Pan American Clipper leaving for Buenos Aires. Late this week, if no accident intervenes, the contents of the tubes were to be instilled in eight pedigreed Argentine cows. If the fertilizations take effect, the calves will be born late in the next Argentine autumn...