Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason the art "season"' begins in Manhattan at the end of September is that by that time prospective buyers are back in town. Another good reason is that most artists do their biggest wad of work in the summer, have it ready for exhibition in the autumn. By last week the first fruits of the old season were already tumbling into...
...business index fell and when commercial, industrial and agricultural loans by New York member banks of the Federal Reserve System shrank for the fifth week in succession, the Times committed itself to the prediction that this "pretty well smashed all hopes of a 'normal seasonal expansion' this autumn." Last week, however, bank debits to individual accounts continued to rise (now only 7% under a year ago), indicating that the nation was spending money faster than industry was expanding-a thoroughly healthy state of affairs...
Overshadowed by the importance of hurricane rehabilitation and the electric European situation, two otherwise commendable new activities at Harvard have blossomed this autumn without the customary fanfare which is rightfully theirs. Perhaps this anonymity exists because the number of people involved is small; perhaps it is due to the fact that neither of the groups has yet had time to produce any outstanding contributions to their particular field. For the nine new Nieman Fellows and the thirteen new graduate students of the Littauer School of Public Administration, who compose what are probably this University's smallest departments, have barely considered...
...summer died and autumn rains swept the Atlantic seaboard, jolly Professor Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby last week talked about weather in a Swedish accent to members of the Fifth International Congress of Applied Mechanics, at Cambridge. Mass. New facts had been obtained, said Dr. Rossby, from weather sounding balloons and airplane explorations of the upper atmosphere. These had been woven together into an original theory about the general circulation of the atmosphere, an elaborate theory still thin in spots, but one that raises scientific hopes for more accurate weather prediction...
...divisions of the German Army had begun a month of divisional training. Corps maneuvers in the 18 corps areas were under way this week. But it was agonizingly plain to those on the opposite side of the Rhine that Germany was not merely engaged in normal autumn military exercises...