Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worst of all, Burdick thought, was what he called "cultural passivity." In England, he found, there was none of "the rise and fall, the massive brooding anxiety, the creative stabbing of self-doubt, the tortures of ethnic inadequacy that one finds to a marked degree in America and Asia . . ." He doubted very much whether England "could today produce a Shakespeare," but thought America or Asia might...
Harvard's "varsity" crew placed third in a field of three in the first annual Union Boat Club fall regatta yesterday morning. M.I.T.'s varsity won in 3:49 over the three-quarter mile course, nosing out the Union Boat Club by less than a deck length, while the Crimson's entry finished two lengths back...
Only two members of last year's varsity showed up to represent the Crimson, and since training is not required of Harvard crews in the fall, they put on a lethargic show. After the first 200 yards they settled to an easy beat of 26, and rapidly faded from contention...
...delight of this successful hoax was all the more the following fall when two Crimeds, posing as New York newspapermen, visited Hanover before the game and snared details of a monster Indian attempt to retaliate for the 1946 humiliation...
...NROTC certificate uses one page of small type to relist those organizations originally designated by the Attorney General in the fall of 1947 as totalitarian, fascist, communist, advocating denial of constitutional rights, or seeking to alter the form of government by unconstitutional means. The facing page asks the individual to certify, among other things, whether he has been associated with these organizations...