Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edwin A. Ackerman, assistant professor here last year, spend last fall in Japan, where he aided the Army in setting up national resources planning board in the occupied country...
...speaking. Student demand for this course has been steadily increasing so that it now exceeds the facilities. The nature of a speech course demands small sections; the Department's allocations for speech limit the course to 75. As many students had to be turned away from the course last fall as were allowed to take it. Even if University officials do not consider speech an important subject, they must at least recognize its basic value to the extent of giving all those who want this instruction the chance to get it. This means an extension in the facilities of English...
Leaves of absence for assistant professors will be granted next fall for the first time since the war, Provost Buck announced yesterday. Greater freedom for professional advancement on the part of assistant professors through reading, writing, research, or travel is the purpose of the half-year sabbaticals, he stated...
...distinctive characteristics of nations change with the centuries. Fifteenth Century Italians were clean, reserved, austere: they were shocked by the filth of the Germans. Erasmus was bowled over by the vulgar English tendency to display passion and emotion in public. On the other hand, while skirts rise and fall and puffed knee breeches slowly work their way into peg-top trousers, many surprising similarities exist between far-separated cultures. The woman in the Greek wedding procession, bowling along in her chariot, might almost be on the way back from buying a work dress in a country store...
...Crimson performers played their role of fall guys to the hilt. After building up to a 27 to 18 lead at the intermission, they all but fell on their collective faces in the second act of the show which mercifully was only a one night stand...