Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike most of Harvard's annual events, Class Day has no number. Tomorrow's commencement will be No. 297. The Yale game next fall will be No. 65. But today's events, while unquestionably "traditional," belong to a tradition that was never established as such, and then kept track of, and numbered, from year to year...
...finals of the tournament, Fuller, last year's wrestling captain, took a split decision from Bob Girand, a man he knocked out last fall in an amateur bout. He gained his advantage in the second and third rounds after fighting cautiously for the first two minutes. In the semifinals he won a unanimous decision over Ed Moylan, a former Navy fighter...
...Kellogg does not believe, as some theorists do, that soil deterioration caused the fall of older civilizations. When soil goes to pot, the causes lie deeper than farming practices, he says. "Generally, when a rural population becomes poverty-stricken, it fails to maintain its soil. An exploited people pass on their suffering to the land. Low prices, disease and wars are all important causes. Things get on a hand-to-mouth or year-to-year basis . . . Where farmers can take a long view of production, there are very few instances of conflict between those practices that give most return...
...rate of $264,000,000 a year, up 60% over last year and 100% over the first quarter of this year. But Britain's total imports in April rose proportionately even more, pushing her adverse balance of trade for the month to $218,000,000, highest since last fall...
...Director Margaret Webster; in Hollywood. She made her name in England in the '80s with Richard Mansfield, in the U.S. with the Sir Henry Irving-Ellen Terry company in 1895. In later years she turned to the cinema, made an immediate hit in Hollywood's Night Must Fall, another in Britain's The Lady Vanishes...