Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than half a century. That experience has taught us that the control of Europe by a single aggressive, unfriendly power would constitute an intolerable threat to the national security of the United States . . . We've also learned that if the free nations do not stand together, they will fall one by one . . . We and the free nations of Europe are determined that history shall not repeat itself in that melancholy particular...
...years later, back at New Haven, he began his teaching of 18th Century literature. He found it easy to follow the rule he gave would-be scholars: "You must fall in love with your subject." In time, he came to know as much about Johnson and Boswell as any man alive. His own boots, including the Tinker edition of Boswell's letters, were milestones in 18th Century scholarship, outdated only by the further probings of Chauncey Tinker himself. It was he who, tracing the leads all the way to Ireland in 1925, first confirmed the existence of the great...
...station-not forgetting a telescope to study astronomy ("That will get them a long way out of West Dallas"). He also wants to keep his school open all through the summer. "That way," says he, "a lot of these youngsters whose folks take them off cotton picking in the fall can get their full nine months...
...wife," or "allergic to his job" may be on sound scientific ground, says Swartz. Unhappiness at home or office can cause allergic reaction that results, for instance, in asthma. Swartz tells of a garment manufacturer whose asthma became almost unbearable every spring, and then improved in the fall. It was not a case of pollen sensitivity, as the victim thought, but worry over his business sense. In March he made up his samples and started to worry; by September, he knew that his judgment about them had been all right...
Ravreby, right tackle on the freshman football team this fall, set up Chadwick, no mean boxer himself, with a series of jolting left jabs to the face for his final right to the jaw. Two weeks ago, Ravreby scored a one minute TKO over Leland Schoen of Stoughton to win the freshman heavy-weight title...