Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Better a Dev You Know. . ." In a sense, you might say, it was a private fight between young (43), clever, soft-spoken Sean MacBride, whose Clann na Poblachta (Republican Party) had successfully challenged the government in last fall's by-elections (TIME, Dec. 1), and old Dev himself. Young Sean, whose early life had been spent in the outlawed Irish Republican Army and whose father had been executed by the British, disavowed any trace of anti-Britishism, but he was vaguely against Dev's policy of keeping Eire in the British pound sterling zone...
There was once a Freshman who lived in a triple in Wigglesworth. The following fall he and his three roommates were moved not to a House but to a double in another Wigglesworth entry. As the final crippling blow he discovered his rent had been raised. This man-and others in similar plights-concluded there was something wrong with the room rent system. They were right...
...spite of all the popular misconceptions, writers do seem to have one characteristic in common--they are individualists. This was borne out in an advanced writing class last Fall, when one Radcliffe member pulled out a huge pipe from her handbag, piled it high with aromatic tobacco, and started smoking with all the guest of an old salt. The ten male writers sitting around the table were left gaping for only a second; from then on they refused to blink, and so the class ended happily...
Inspiration for the drive came from newspaper articles last fall, which described the difficulties faced by instructors who attempt to teach text-less American literature and other courses in Eastern Europe
...arrives as somewhat of a surprise. He is Tom Guthrie, a transfer from Notre Dame who has just completed his twelve months of non-eligibility. Guthrie, a six-five, 220 pound end for the Irish in '44, has been highly touted as a football prospect for next fall. His baskeball talents are not so well known, but he may see some action at center as a replacement for Bill Prior...