Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen's Example. All winter and the following autumn, Mrs. Spiers sent Eva to school in slacks. Every Monday the headmistress spotted her in the hall, and sent her home for the week...
...autumn afternoon back in 1903, it was Dartmouth that helped dedicate the Stadium--North America's first great college sports arena, and the nation's first reinforced concrete structure. Always the gracious host, the Crimson gave the Big Green an 11-0 victory that afternoon...
...orgies and extortion make them an eternal menace in many a school. Even in quieter districts, the public-school child is still gulped up by the world's most enormous* -and in many ways its most faceless and impersonal-educational system. He becomes simply one by this autumn's figures, of 934,105 students. "At home," said one new boy. "I knew everybody. Down here nobody would even come to my funeral...
...stream of eager youngsters out to fame, fortune and high public service. Among them: Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Panama Canal Engineer George W. Goethals. Opera Star Rise Stevens, Singer Robert Merrill and Comedian Eddie Cantor. About two-thirds of last year's graduates went on to college this autumn and collected $2,500,000 in scholarships in the process...
...Gallup took no poll on U.S. sympathies, but a pro-Brooklyn sentiment hung unmistakably in the autumn air. At the White House, Ike Eisenhower shook his head when he heard that the Yankees were off to a fast start in the first game. He turned to his visitor of the day, Adlai Stevenson, and cracked: "It's time for a change." In Missouri, same day, Harry Truman told reporters: "The Yankees are getting to be a habit, and it's time somebody did something about...