Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan the next fall, he gave up singing as a career when Critic Deems Taylor gave him full marks for a good voice but said that he sang without "enough impulse." His voice kept him in pocket money (he sang in church choirs and in a synagogue) while he finished up at Columbia Law School. With his degree in his pocket, he spent the summer of 1925 on his first & only trip to Europe (London, Paris, Brussels), returned to enter the Manhattan law firm of Larkin, Rathbone & Perry. At the same time he jumped into local politics, worked...
...classic Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon referred to Rome's downfall as "the triumph of barbarism and religion" [Christianity...
Meanwhile, Ed Barit prodded his engineers to recapture the art which had given Hudson the industry's longest list of "firsts" (e.g., first aluminum pistons, first rear luggage compartment, first steering-wheel gearshift). Last fall they were finally ready with something that Barit felt to be a real advance. The new Hudson was so low that passengers step over the frame and down into it from the curb, yet it still has more headroom and width than any other car now being mass-produced. It also has a lower center of gravity. Barit was so convinced...
Harried undergraduates will also be glad to learn that the academic calendar, which has been slowly readapting itself to a peacetime college, will, by June 1949, find itself back to normal. College opens on September 27, fall term exams run until February 4, and the last student will not finish spring finals until June...
...Natural Science course, entitled "Organic Evolution," will be conducted by Alfred S. Romer, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology. In the Humanities, courses in "Art in Man's Environment" and "The Idea of Progress in Western Literature and Thought" will compensate for the omission of Humanities 12a next fall...