Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pecan free in Bixby, Oklahoma, won a clear-cut decision by a fall over 155-pound wrestler Sandy Jones on Tuesday, December 23, and succeeded in putting Chief Boston's sophomore ace on the injured list for the rest of the season...
Would-be lawyers will have to pay more for their training at the Harvard Law School next fall, as the result of a $100 per term increase in tuition announced yesterday by the University...
There aren't many veterans of the blizzard of '88 still in College, and they don't write letters to newspapers asking about Santa Claus; some of them won't even, admit that this was a hell of a snow fall. One grisly octogenarian had remarked on a certain Sunday, "They don't make storms like that any more," but on December 26 he happened to hold up a damp finger in the wind, shattering all his illusions and allusions to the past...
...difference between nether garments and trousers in Scotland?" asked schoolmasterish Henry Strauss, Tory member for Combined English Universities. "Kilts!" shouted a Socialist backbencher, and the Sassenachs laughed again. But it was the Scots who had the last laugh after all, for the English, who had no kilts to fall back on, were themselves having trouser trouble...
...Hampshire University's football team, a 1947 Glass Bowl participant, will not open against the Crimson in Cambridge next fall, according to yesterday's New Hampshire Sunday News. The NHU Athletic Council was represented in the News as declining, presumably within the last week, an offer to be added to the 1948 Crimson schedule as a ninth oponent, despite coach, player, and alumni wishes...