Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full autumn of hard work, long afternoon sessions and frequent disappointments goes on the line this afternoon for both teams. The Yale season started last Saturday. The Harvard season starts at 1:30 p.m. and most Crimson supporters hope it will last for three hours...
...Roosevelt's prose has the unique faculty of leaving the mind stumbling about in a forest of wavering, autumn-tinted meanings ... So the discovery of Hiss's "alleged" treason was less damaging to U.S. prestige than Senator McCarthy's investigations? . . . Or does the word "alleged" indicate that Mrs. Roosevelt does not believe that Hiss was a traitor? . . . Meanwhile, she remains unchallenged mistress of the dangling sequitur...
...world was as filled with color as a forest in autumn. NBC showed a satisfying colorcast of the opera Carmen to hundreds of invited guests in Manhattan, and last week followed it with the first closed-circuit broadcast from New York to Hollywood, where a group of moviemen were unhappily impressed by the vivid picture and surprisingly fine texture of color TV. Dragnet began shooting its films in color, and Bob Hope issued a casting call for the "most colorgenic girls in America" to appear on his first color TV show. Industrial designers Lippincott & Margulies moved into...
...hectic weekend quietly closes. Of a Sunday afternoon--between Saturday's passes and Monday's exams--couples forsake the falling November leaves for a secluded nook. They leave the pale autumn light outside, expecting warm fires and mellow wine...
Football, always a great sight of the U.S. autumn scene, was showing the fans some dazzling spectacles. Reason: brilliant October weather and fresh winds blowing from the rule book. The return to the one-platoon system swept the boring scramble of unlimited substitutions from the fields: games were easier to follow and shorter, players more versatile. Fans flocked to the stadiums to hear the bands and cheer the helmeted heroes, crowded even breather games in hopes of an upset. Two of the most bruising battles so far saw Big Ten Champion Wisconsin losing to U.C.L.A., 13-0, at Los Angeles...