Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall, woollybear caterpillars have a brown band in their midriffs. If the brown band is wide, a mild winter is indicated; if the band is narrow, it will be a hard winter [TIME, Nov. 8, 1948]. This year's bands, according to the museum's naturalists, are wide...
Divided Land. But while life was evolving, the earth was heating up because of the radioactivity of its stony ingredients. The stony core got hotter and so did the stone-iron mixture. Eventually the outer mixture got soft enough for the iron to trickle down toward the center. Its "fall" of several thousand miles made the earth's middle layers even hotter...
These advocates of preserving the status quo generally fall under the membership of five or six of the older clubs, notably Ivy, Cap and Gown, Tiger, Colonial, Cottage, and possibly Charter. Not all the members of these clubs feel inclined to retain the present system, but most admit that that is their general stand...
...valuable time in working out what to do with 10 percent. Gateway's clubhouse had been taken over for some temporary housing, and before anyone realized it, there were only 17 clubs again. The result was over-crowding, and generally un-luxurious condition in the clubs through the fall...
versity and through the first fall bicker ever held, this term have swollen the total number of club-members...