Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teheran mob kept the Majlis from meeting to approve Hajir's cabinet. Said one English-speaking Persian politician: "There's an old proverb that 'a year can be judged by its spring.' Well, it looks as though there's going to be an early fall...
...Madrid, Carmencita Franco, gently curved daughter of the well-rounded Generalissimo, let it be known unofficially that she was keeping company with Dr. Cristobal Martinez Bordiu, that they would probably announce their engagement officially in the fall...
...late next fall, when the hammers are stilled and the plaster dust settled, Manhattan's sedate Times will be settled in one of the fanciest quarters in the business. An air-conditioned building with pastel walls, glass-brick partitions and functional furniture, it has cozy bedroom suites for executives, playrooms and dining rooms for all 3,300 staffers and a city room so vast that the city editor has to use a microphone to page his far-flung reporters...
Once or twice, as in the dancelike shouting of The play's the thing, he verges on hollow flamboyance; and he may fall to the floor once too often. But such excesses are rare and disarming; mostly, insofar as he errs, he errs nobly on the side of restraint. He pours out the marvelous liquids of the first soliloquy (0! that this too, too solid flesh would melt) very tenderly and melodiously, but with little of the anguish which lies half-awakened beneath the bitter mildness. To be, or not to be is spoken in a stoical quietude...
Appointed head of TVA in 1933, Morgan turned Antioch over to Dean Algo D. Henderson. Last fall Henderson resigned and 70-year-old Trustee Morgan led the hunt for a new president. McGregor was the 665th man whom Antioch investigated for the job, before finding the one it wanted...