Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unseasonably humid Brazilian fall, the men sweated damply in woolen suits or sported open-necked shirts and cruise clothes. Their wives, dressed in everything from purple voile to tweeds, seemed positively dowdy to Rio, where the "New Look" has swept skirts down almost to the ankle. In the big Municipal Theater, delegates and wives gathered with some 6,000 other Rotarians from 37 countries, listened to Senior Statesman Oswaldo Aranha address them in Portuguese. "I can just feel what he's saying," gushed a Rotary wife...
...being the most accurate of any political survey conducted in the college this year." However, correct sampling technique isn't the only prerequisite for a good poll. Questions should be objective as possible, and interpretations should not go beyond what can be deduced from the figures. This survey falls down on these counts, and it also seems to fall down on its sampling technique...
...vacation migration. The barbershop trade is another. The Yalies may tell you that Harvard men never take haircuts, but they're wrong. It takes considerable skill to give that moss-grown look to pate after pate, and Cambridge barbers have it. They'll have to forget it until fall, however...
After finishing the fall season with a comfortable lead, the Mastodons lost a sizable portion of their margin to Winthrop, which emerged as cold weather club of considerable minor sport power. Paradoxically, spring affected the Puritans, who lapsed into an enervated slump, while the Elephants trundled home with the silverware...
Harvard Club of Fall River: Benjamin C. Gifford '39, 431 Rock Street, Fall River...