Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of non-aggression pacts with every Soviet neighbor except Japan. Scared by Adolf Hitler's "if-I-had-the-Ukraine" line of chatter, he played the game of collective security for all it was worth throughout the dictators' aggressions in Ethiopia, Spain, Austria. Last autumn, the Czecho-Slovak crisis found him again at Geneva proposing joint British-French-Russian action to save the Czechs...
...years the Crimson's aim to furnish this advice to new men; hence, the Confidential Guide has become a traditional aid to incoming, Freshmen. This year, minus its somewhat misleading title, "Confidential," the Freshman Guide will be written to stress student opinion on first year courses, disregarding for the autumn at least the secondary problem of choice of fields of concentration...
...affable Manhattan librarian and expert on early U. S. music, a harpsichord was obtained for the governor's palace, and U. S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick was hired to put on a festival of 18th-Century music. So successful was Williamsburg's first music festival that in the autumn another was given...
...years a celebrity sculptor, bushy-whiskered Jo Davidson is known for his studies of presidents, generals, kings and Gertrude Stein. Of late "Headhunter" Davidson's social types have changed. Dedicated last autumn in Claremore, Okla. was his memorial statue of the late homespun Humorist Will Rogers. Exhibited in Manhattan last November were his portrait busts, made under fire in Spain, of the leaders of the People's Army. Last week when chunky Sculptor Davidson stepped ashore in Manhattan, glowering amiably, he brought with him from Paris a seven-foot, two-ton bronze statue of Walt Whitman, a People...
...Farm Equipment Co. has moved cautiously with Raydex, testing it quietly for three years. But word of its merit spread so fast among farmers that Oliver had orders for 7,000 even before it formally announced Raydex to its dealers last week. It expects to sell 150,000 by autumn...