Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promise to put through the Eight and One Third Air Group program. By persuading the Chinese Government to adopt American equipment and then refusing ammunition, we have put these soldiers on the end of a very long limb. ... If Manchuria should be abandoned to the Communists or should fall into their hands by conquest, a course of events fatal to China would follow...
...cause is a common cause. If China falls into the hands of Stalin, all Asia, including Japan, sooner or later will fall into his hands. The manpower and resources of Asia will be mobilized against us. The independence of the U.S. will not live a generation longer than the independence of China...
Painter and the regents decided that Dobie must go. The problem was how to get rid of him, for he was the biggest name on the Texas campus. Finally, a way was found. For years, Dobie had taken leave without pay during the fall term to write, and to avoid the hay-fever season. This year, when he applied for leave as usual, Painter refused it, said he must stay on the job. No, said Dobie: hay fever "devastated" him. President Painter thereupon issued a statement: "By this action, Dobie's connection with the university has terminated...
Down without Effort. Once you're out, Baldwin says, there isn't enough air to breathe. A special bottle of oxygen may fix that. But the "opening shock" at high altitudes is too great to risk. It is better to fall into denser air before using the parachute. Wright Field has developed a gadget that opens the chute at the proper altitude, whether the pilot is conscious...
Officers of the Associated Harvard Clubs of four states and the District of Columbia joined the members of the Virginia Harvard Clubs last night in the Mosque auditorium in Richmond, Va., where they heard Dean Bender and F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38 describe conditions at the College this fall...