Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wings" they said. Calmly they turned off the ignition (to prevent fire in the crash) and jumped out with parachutes. The fuselage came to earth in the stables of the Meadow Brook Club, killing two polo ponies: Gay Boy, used in the International Cup Play last autumn by Malcolm Stevenson, and Anaconda, also prized. Said William Averell Harriman, financier, owner of the two ponies: "They were two of the best polo ponies in the world. I raised them from colts. They were priceless...
Alexander Meiklejohn made the above confession last autumn at the opening of the Experimental College of the University of Wisconsin, in the presence of the 119 students who had registered. They were not a selected group. They had come voluntarily because they wanted to spend their first two college years under Dr. Meiklejohn and as a part of his experiment. They had heard of him as a liberal who had been forced to resign from the presidency of Amherst College (in 1923). They knew that President Glenn Frank had brought him to Wisconsin because he was also a distinguished philosopher...
...Passed a resolution instructing the Secretary of the Interior to have the Boulder Dam project surveyed anew and report next autumn; sent the resolution to the House...
Senator Johnson's solace in defeat was consent of the Senate to consider the dam again first thing next autumn. A resolution by Senator Key Pittman of Nevada for a quintet of engineers to examine and report on Boulder Dam once more this summer, was also passed. This report will doubtless be decisive...
...backers (principally Mrs. Frederick Guest, wife of a Britisher and daughter of Millionaire U. S. Senator Phipps of Colorado) and crew. Of the latter, the only well known professional aviator was Wilmer Stultz, who turned back rather than pilot Mrs. Grayson to almost certain mid-Atlantic destruction last autumn, and who has since flown about the Atlantic seaboard with Charles Levine and Mabel Boll. The other two were just the kind of people who would be likely to depart from a yacht club landing when they wanted to fly to England. One was slim Lou Gordon, mechanic, 26, in aviation...