Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After months of entreaty, a 76-year-old Fosston, Minn, farmer named Walter Morgan got a pilot to take him aloft for a parachute jump. He leaped out of the plane at 1,800 feet, gave 2,000 spectators near heart failure by letting himself fall free until he was halfway to the ground. Then he yanked his rip cord, landed calmly in a field, said: "That's what an old man can do when he lets liquor alone...
Center George Schreck has been limping on and off the field this fall because of a knee injury. It seems as if that's the only way he can get a rest. Last year he averaged close to 59 minutes of play in nine straight games...
Captain Dale Armstrong was chosen as an All-East end last fall, primarily for his defensive ability, although last week he caught six passes against Colgate. He may well throw the wrench into Art Valpey's well-oiled ground machine...
...year will be a mere formality, Republican chiefs are quaking in their well-polished boots over the future of the Senate. Since 1946, the GOP has held a modest 51 to 45 edge. But of the 17 Republican seats up for vote in November, no less than eight may fall to the Democrats--yet of the 14 Democratic seats, only four or five are doubtful. An over-all gain of four seats would give control of the upper house back to the Democrats, and--if Dewey wins--present the new Administration with a very pretty problem indeed...
Miss Curtis was not convinced. "Even with the window steps I found it practically impossible to get over the window ledge and roof projection without having my apparatus fall...