Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last autumn Dr. Greist wrote to his superiors on the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church: "Now I am beginning to feel that the Lord is ready to excuse me from further service on this coast. Prayer and earnest seeking after the mind of the Spirit causes me to express myself thus. I have nothing to regret save my limited ability to serve Him. Many souls have been brought to the Lord Jesus Christ and I have preached the word with all faithfulness. And yet I shall leave my heart within this far North for whose people...
...Dead (by Irwin Shaw; Alex Yokel, producer) made its author famed before it was given a full-fledged production. A 23-year-old Brooklynite, Irwin Shaw had previously distinguished himself chiefly as a third-rate semiprofessional football player and writer of the "Dick Tracy" radio child thriller. Last autumn he heard about the radical New Theatre League's play contest. Bury the Dead was not finished in time to compete, but Playwright Shaw took his script to the League's Manhattan headquarters when he completed the fiery paean against war. A pair of tryouts by a group...
...seer, Colonel Ayres is by no means infallible. Though he viewed the 1929 stockmarket with a jaundiced eye, he was talking about the "last phase of the Depression" as early as the autumn of 1930. He can analyze other people's analyses with devastating results. Yet his own conclusions are often challenged, and his vision is sometimes curiously narrow. But given a popular economic delusion, he can demolish it in one swift paragraph. His prestige has grown uninterruptedly throughout Depression, while the stature of other economic prophets was shrinking rapidly. Today he is one of the most-quoted bank...
Cortez and all his men could never have looked at each other with wilder surprise than these deserted children of Bunker Hill and Saratoga. In hearing from their own lips of their waning strength, one is reminded of nothing so much as that autumn day in 1918 when Kaiser Wilhelm threw up the sponge and took the next train for Holland. The rules of our country are-abdicating their thrones with distressingly little thought of what anarchy is to stalk abroad when the firm hand that has been our guide for so long has vanished...
Then the U. S. Crop Reporting Board dampened all this market bearishness more effectively than rain had dampened Kansas. Predicting that 21% of all acreage sown last autumn would be abandoned, it forecast a winter wheat crop of only 493,000,000 bu. for 1936,60,000,000 bu. more than was harvested in lean 1935 but far below the 618.000,000 bu. average for the five preceding years...