Word: fall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conscription for a British-Canadian war, and decreed an election. It was an important contest, for if Maurice Duplessis won, it would mean that a huge French island in Canada was in open opposition to the Federal policy, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Government might fall. But things went badly for pink-cheeked, Hitler-mustached, Bon Vivant M. Duplessis...
Then the picture changed. This fall Conductor Klemperer was rushed off to Boston to be operated on for a brain tumor. By this month his health had become so precarious that he had to give up his conducting plans for the season. With the health of their orchestra also precarious, the board of directors decided on a desperate blood transfusion: an injection of high-spending cultural barbarians among their own withering shirt fronts. Last week, while the starchier board members still creaked and grumbled, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced: 1) a move from Los Angeles' solemn, downtown Philharmonic Auditorium...
Readers of My Life will find plenty of candor, but not quite the kind of thing they expected. The first 250 pages are dull as dishwater-a long-winded genealogy of Havelock Ellis's ancestors (healthy, middle-of-the-road sea captains, churchmen, businessmen, who "neither rise nor fall"), of his sheltered childhood, of his innocent young manhood as a schoolteacher in Australia, medical student in London, platonic lover of Olive Schreiner (The Story of an African Farm), who called him "my Soul's wifie." At that time, Ellis candidly confesses, he was 5' 10½" tall...
These two approvals were given lat last spring, and action by the Committee on the petition was considered earlier this fall but postponed until today...
...thing the British navy does without fall--it always fights for English interests. I think the American navy, which on account of its guns and strategically location is now more powerful than any other navy, should do likewise for America. It seems clear to me that if we fear a war with a European power or a concert of European and Asiatic powers, the thing for us to do is to let their others extend their lines of supply and fight here. If France and England couldn't help Poland, how can France, England, Germany, Italy, and Russia together invade...