Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last fall Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing dropped a bombshell: a program of compulsory health insurance which he recommended to President Truman. Ever since, the big brass of the American Medical Association have been spluttering with indignation. Determined to fight compulsory health insurance tooth & nail, the A.M.A. has also turned its back on such individually financed measures as the voluntary health insurance plan offered by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions (TIME, Dec. 13). In its fighting mood, the A.M.A. has even levied a $25 assessment on each of its 140,000 members...
...York Daily News, biggest U.S. daily, was not feeling so chesty. It reported a January circulation of 2,175,000 daily, 4,500,000 Sunday. That was well down from the peak of 2,409,000 daily in the fall of 1947, before the News raised its price from...
Declaring that "the future of the Christian cause depends on the mobilization of laymen," the committee decided on a secretariat to stir up the laity. Germany's Pastor Martin Niemöller would travel to Australia in the fall; Dr. Marc Boegner, president of the French Protestant Federation, would bring the gospel to South America; Norway's Bishop Berggrav would go to East Asia...
Despite the closeness of the score, the Crimson led all the way and was never seriously threatened by the low scoring Tigers. But a warm rink made the ice sticky, causing the varsity's passing and scoring to fall off. A second factor in the low scoring was Princeton's excellent not coverage late in the game...
...addendum to the mimeographed wrestling program states: "A fall is decided when either wrestler holds his opponent's shoulders to the mat for a period of two seconds." Butch Jordan's tutees did this five times at the Blockhouse Saturday to vanquish Dartmouth...