Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western leaders, convinced that China is about to fall, are sorry for the Chinese. It does not occur to them to be sorry for themselves and for their children, who may have to fight to retrieve what has been lost in the last month in Asia...
After long and careful experimenting with dry ice and other artificial stimulants, the rainmakers are giving up. Hereafter, the Air Force announced this week, the rain will fall where & when it listeth...
Routine announcements had been made all fall--especially to freshman unused to shadowy Cambridge streets--and were renewed when two holdups in the Garden st. area were reported last week...
Burton, a graduate of St. John's College in Oxford, is preparing for a career as an educator. During the war, he served as a commissioned officer with the British Royal Artillery. Captured in the fall of Singapore, he worked on the Siam-Burma railway and helped to run a camp library and book repair shop while a prissier of the Japanese. After his repatriation in 1945 he wrote a book about his war experiences entitled "In the Shadow...
Newman himself is "surprised and amused" at all the furor, but he says, "I have no desire to change what I said before: that people in academic life have got to stand for freedom of though and freedom of investigation, or whatever we mean by academic institutions will fall to the ground...