Word: fall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screwy State of California" (TIME, Oct. 24, p. 12). Have lived here some time and notice that screwiness is even more of a tourist attraction than scenery or climate. Visitors from the East don't show much interest in Yosemite, the Redwoods or the orange groves, but they fall all over themselves to see evidences of our human phenomena-such as the folks at Aimee's Angelus Temple and on Hollywood Boulevard, the Iowans at Elysian Park, and supporters of the "$30-every-Thursday." In short, the pinheads have at last eclipsed the halfdomes on the California scene...
...Supreme Court will accept briefs from the three disappointed States if they protest Master Flannery's findings. Should their claims be allowed as well as Massachusetts', Ned Green's estate will fall $1,589,000 short of paying them...
Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose whereabouts is usually a military secret, last week was revealed to have moved to a new headquarters in southern Hunan Province, midway between fallen Hankow and Canton. With British munitions and supplies cut off by Canton's fall and the possibility that French Premier Daladier will heed Japan's demand to close the supply route to China from French Indo-China, the onetime Red-fighting, Communist-hating Generalissimo has depended more & more on Soviet Russia for material. This has been going in by planes from stations on the outer Mongolian border and by truck...
Certain that China's main air base at Nanchang, 400 miles north of Canton, will soon fall, a new air station has been set up in interior Yunnan Province, and there last week Chinese recruits, coached by adventurous U. S. fliers, were busy learning the controls of recently arrived Russian fighting planes...
...Winter Carnival is held; Princeton is a formal place where they don't have much fun; and Chicago is a fairly new place which the Rockefellers have a hand in, too. This much the Vagabond knows about the colleges whose teams have held the Saturday spotlight here this fall. But little Virginia is just a nice, Southern place which is much closer to his heart, and he would write of her as he knows...