Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This fall the North American duck population, which has gone down steadily for three years, is down to about 110 million.† In alarm, some states imposed a midseason holiday on hunting (in Oregon, the first half of the season ended last week). The U.S. Fish & Wild Life Service cut the daily limit of ducks per hunter from ten to seven-and now to four. But at some U.S. duck-hunting spots last week, there were not four ducks to be seen, much less shot...
When present leader Charles H. Vivian 5G posted a sheet in the Dunster lobby last fall asking for residents interested in a House Choir, several vocally minded Funsters penned their signatures, and the new chanting society was conceived...
...Harry hasn't been shirking his duties. He's been doing one of the most necessary jobs of that complicated organization only the results of which the football fan sees of a fall Saturday afternoon--the job of scouting next week's opposition...
Coach Mikkola's runners will have ample opportunity to make up for what happened this fall during the coming months...
...testing remains an unbending remnant of past glories, a significant segment which finds the path of admission strewn with the roses of one of about twenty New England schools. The last class admitted to the College under normal peacetime standards--1945--found itself when it arrived in the fall of 1941 with the usual 50-50 ratio of public and private school graduates; but out of that private half better than three-fifths came from Groton, St. Paul's, St. Mark's, Middlesex, Milton, or a companion institution...