Word: fall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...structure and creates no consumers' goods for the maintenance of a lasting prosperity. We know that nations guilty of these follies inevitably face the day either when their weapons of destruction must be used against their neighbors or when an unsound economy, like a house of cards, will fall apart." To get as much virtue as he could out of his new necessity, Mr. Roosevelt last week explored ways of putting Relief money and workers into rearmament work...
...guerrillas also have a transvestite stunt that has taken toll on the Japanese. Chinese youths dress as girls, lure Japanese into the countryside, where waiting guerrillas fall upon them...
Oddest fact about Beaverbrook as a publisher is the amount of kidding and criticism the Beaver can take from the people who work for him. Evelyn Waugh. a writer of fantastic novels (Decline And Fall, Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust) was once an Evening Standard reporter. He has repeatedly and maliciously caricatured Beaverbrook as Lord Monomark or Lord Copper of the Daily Excess...
Sitting in the ruins of the Capitol at twilight, a 27-year-old Englishman named Edward Gibbon once dreamed of writing a massive work on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. At that time the British Empire was growing strong. And to young Edward Gibbon the fall of Rome seemed a simple, faraway matter: wealth unmanned the noble Romans; Christianity enfeebled the masses; the barbarians advanced...
...watch the Cornell-Pennsylvania Turkey Day classic because next year George Munger's Quakers appear on the Harvard schedule. The four coaches will also be on hand Saturday in Philadelphia to witness the annual Army-Navy clash to get another look at the Cadets in preparation for next fall's contest. They will return to Cambridge Sunday...