Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been assigned to bomb a mountainside, so that rocks would fall and seal a railroad tunnel below. Over the target, a burst of flak knocked out one engine, then the other engine went out. When the order came to bail out, the tailgunner went out first, and got stuck in the escape hatch, pinned against the rear of it by the wind pressure. Chappuis kicked him in the only accessible place-his head -and knocked him loose. Then he jumped...
Scrap dealers wondered how long the steel companies could hold out. In August, when scrap rose to $42, the steel companies, by refusing to buy, drove the price down to $38. This time they were in a poorer bargaining position. Traditionally, the industry stocks up on scrap in the fall, before the cold weather slows down collection and transportation...
...poll, rigged as a publicity stunt to advertise the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall production of Ibsen's Enemy of the People, got a response of 850 ballots in boxes placed in the House dining halls the end of last week...
Unless the H.A.A. raises the amount it allows the Band for the one traditional trip per year, "we won't go to Princeton next fall," Joseph J. Borgatti, Jr. '45, Band treasurer, said last night. The Cornell and Army trips next season are definitely out, he added, unless the College or the alumni pay for them...
Robert S. Lynd, professor of Sociology in the Graduate Faculty of Political Science at Columbia, will set forth his views on "The Middle Class and Social Change" before a New Lecture Hall audience Monday at 8 o'clock in the second of a series of fall lectures sponsored by the John Reed Society...