Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...halls all over Oxford, there had been plenty of guesses, but the mystery remained unsolved. A wealthy Frenchman had given Oxford one of the biggest gifts in its history-$6,000,000 for a new college-but had insisted on remaining anonymous. Who was he? Announcing the gift last fall, Vice Chancellor John Lowe said he knew but wouldn't tell; the mysterious donor could just go on being Monsieur X (TIME, Sept...
Oxford & Admiration. As Monsieur X, Antonin Besse had explained last fall, in part, why he had given so much to Oxford. No Oxford man himself, he had admired Oxonians as acquaintances and employees, wanted more young men trained as they had been. Besse has not yet explained one further mystery: he sent his own two sons to Cambridge...
...symptomatic drinkers," i.e., they are mentally ill to start with, and drinking is a symptom, not a cause of their illness. With the other 40%, the trouble seems to start with their drinking rather than their personalities. They may be "occupational drinkers" (e.g., bartenders, salesmen, newspaper reporters), who fall into the habit because of their jobs; or "compensatory drinkers," who try to forget the drabness of their lives; or "situational drinkers" who get started because of some emotional crisis...
...sedate modesty of a skilled campaigner, Paley described his victory as "rather casual and ordinary." Negotiations with Bing, he said, had taken about three weeks and everything else about the deal is a "trade secret." Crosby and Skelton are expected to make the move to CBS this fall...
...union had demanded the increase for 30,000 workers in the New Bedford-Fall River area, which traditionally sets the northern wage pattern in cotton. (But not for such basic industries as autos and steel.) Arbitrator Douglas V. Brown, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said no. In professorial tones, he warned that the industry faced "a decrease of an insufficient increase in demand." (Translation: business isn't very good...