Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressive spectacle of 2,200 items, worth $1,500,000. This week, in Ike's boyhood home, Abilene, Kans., the Eisenhower Museum, housing Ike's war trophies and other Eisenhower memorabilia, will be informally opened to the public. The President will preside over the formal opening next autumn...
...autumn of 1928, Harvard was well on its way to becoming an urban university: if not a Paris, then a Boston University or CCNY. Increased admissions had created a mass of undergraduates living at random about Cambridge, eating at cheap counters along Massachusetts Avenue, and split into numerous factions, of which the club group along the Gold Coast was the most notable. Whatever American tradition of college life Harvard had once possessed was menaced with suffocation in the unmanageable mass of undergraduates...
...autumn of 1952 wore into winter, Schwable was kept in a series of tiny, dank caves, watched around the clock by guards who made a practice of shining flashlights in his eyes to wake him up hourly at night. Water spilling from his tea froze on touching the ground. Said he: "I never stopped shivering...
...shelf is a lively study of Keats through the year that began Sept. 21, 1818−"the most amazingly creative year that any English poet has achieved." Within that year Keats turned out, among other poems, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, the Ode to Autumn, the Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian...
...tidy office in Appleton, Wis. one autumn day, a lean, brown-haired man sat down at his desk to face an irksome task. Nathan Marsh Pusey was writing his biography for the 25th reunion of his class at Harvard, and it was with much of the agony that H. M. Pulham Esq. went through ("a good deal like something on a tombstone . . . never did like writing . . .") that he dutifully recorded his life. He noted that he had three chil dren, was president of Appleton's Lawrence College (enrollment: 800), that "liberal education is my chief concern...