Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invitations would go out on the morrow (see p. 27). Like most momentous news it was very simple. There was nothing more to say - yet - about the historic "conversations." So the President helped the world press out a bit by telling Secretary Akerson that the autumn foliage in the mountains was brilliant, beautiful; that the Rapidan River was in spate from the autumn rains. Hoover-MacDonald actions over the weekend. Three-hour motor ride to camp. After dinner, the President, the Prime Minister and Secretary of State Stimson sat in front of the fire in the living room...
...headed by N. P. Hallowell '32, who earned his University "H" by placing second in the half-mile in the Harvard-Yale Oxford-Cambridge track meet last July. In addition, he was captain of the undefeated 1932 cross country team, which made a perfect score against Yale 1932 last autumn...
...Freshmen, with one of the smallest squads in years, open their season against the Purple first-year men this afternoon over the shorter course at Soldiers Field. There were only 26 Freshmen out for cross country at the beginning of the year, as compared with 50 last autumn and there can be no definite estimate of their quality until after today's meet...
...Correspondent Alexander Nazarov, "whose modesty and lack of excessive talents have been definitely appreciated." Last week untalented Voroshilov went to Bobruisk on the Polish frontier. Snug-buttoned in his ankle-length army overcoat, he reviewed a cavalry division, congratulated Red Army Generals on the successful conclusion of their annual autumn maneuvers...
Perhaps the fact that college years begin in the fall has something to do with it too. The adjectives applied to autumn weather--crisp, brisk, stimulating--are always suggestive of activity. Who knows what the effect would be if the opening came during that first warm spell when spring fever is rampant? In the midst of February slush when even the boardwalks in the Yard are under water or during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There...