Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governmental salaries, including the President's, taxable. By 1944 taxes took more than half of the President's salary. In his twelve years in the White House, Franklin Roosevelt never got out of the red, but he had his own and his mother's fortune to fall back...
...Wrong." In Paris, the French National Assembly opened its 1949 session, but things did not fall into their familiar pattern. The 183 Communist deputies had been violent and insulting all last year.* At this session the party emissaries eager-beavered about the lobbies spreading good fellowship. Loud-voiced Arthur Ramette, the Communists' interrupter-heckler, spoke gently: "All we want is peace ... If we sometimes get excited, it's only because we are fighting for peace...
During the summer Dean Leighton and the Yard proctors planned out a program of intramural athletics for freshmen, similar to the House League. Under the guidance of a graduate secretary, the League got off to a rousing start in the fall with a series of 75 touch football games in which 16 entry teams participated. Enthusiasm has continued strong with the current basketball championship, and plans for the future include swimming, squash, and tennis...
Davis was born on May 27, 1927 in Swarthmore and graduated from Swarthmore High School in 1945. He was accepted as a freshman in 1945, but delayed his entrance until last fall because of his health. He finished last year in Group...
...student's most useful study aids. One primary argument for hour exams was that they give the student a chance to size-up his work in terms of what the course and its instructors are driving at. And corrected finals, mid-years especially, are equally useful. A fall term final, fully explained and corrected, can tie up a full course into a neat package the student can work with for the rest of the year...