Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campus, it created more stir than anything Yale had done on the field all fall. Undergraduates cheered and telegrams poured in. Newspaper editorials applauding Yale's gesture as something which fell only a little short of the Emancipation Proclamation. Actually it was more than a gesture of racial tolerance. The simple fact was that Levi Jackson, son of a Negro chef in a Yale fraternity house, was the Big Blue's best player and one of the best liked. The vote was unanimous. Said Levi: "It's swell...
When the flossy fashion-trade magazine Kaleidoscope made its bow this fall, magazine men were amazed at the jet-propelled speed with which it had been put together (TIME, Sept. 13). Last week, Kaleidoscope set another speed record of sorts: after only three issues, it fizzled out like a spent rocket. On Thanksgiving eve dismissal notices went to the staff...
...customer was approaching kingship again in more fields than retail trade. His unwillingness to buy overpriced houses had caused new construction to fall off 12 %-more than seasonal-in October. And many high-priced houses had had "for sale" signs on them for months. Some housing materials might soon be cheaper. The lumber industry, whose record production had begun to back up in the yards, had already trimmed wholesale prices; yet production was still ahead of sales...
...hours on a streetcar with wine, women, an assorted noises broke the monotony of a late fall weekend for 25 Eliot House men Saturday evening...
Final weekend tabulations of the Combined Charities Drive have pushed total contributions above $23,000. Although chairman James D. Cameron '48 expects "a few more contributions to trickle in," final totals will probably fall nearly $2,000 short of the $25,000 goal set last month...