Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magic of Football is in the air again this autumn, and although a miserable few scorn it, none deny that it exists. When the gates of Soldiers Field swing open this afternoon, and the crowd of Crimson partisans sweeps forward eagerly, all true Harvard pulses will begin to thump, and loyal throats will tighten. There will be alert and anxious clusters around television sets in local bars, and here and there, in isolated rooms, the grinds will tune in softly to catch the half-time score. This gentle madness will endure until the heavy snows have covered the last eleat...
...return of Wally Coulson to limited service at end, and of Hal Moffle to unlimited action in the backfield. In the offensive scrimmage against the Freshmen Prince Hal flashed some of the running form which made him one of the few bright spots in the Stadium last autumn, but the layoff has cost him temporarily the split-second timing needed in the Michigan style single wing...
This week, as another autumn moon lit up the traditional festival, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek summoned his countrymen to rise against another kind of Tartar in the national household. "We should understand," he cried in a broadcast to the people, "that in addition to the treacherous rebels who are rampant today, speculation, manipulation and high living to the point of lasciviousness on the part of social parasites in our midst are also to blame for our crisis ... It is my intention to wash away these social dregs by opening the floodgates of public conscience and social justice...
...autumn would End! If the sweet season, The late light in the tall trees would End! If the fragrance, the odor of Fallen apples, dust on the road, Water somewhere near, the scent of Water touching me; if this would end I could endure the absence in the night, The hands beyond the reach of bands, the name Called out and never answered with my name: The image seen but never seen with sight. I could endure this all If autumn ended and the cold light came...
Bigart found the wily Markos serenely confident that "by judicious economy in men and ammunition, he could persevere . . . until the Greek Army campaign collapsed through attrition of manpower or was bogged by autumn rains...