Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine men to the City Council. "Plan E," a system for Cambridge managerial government, is up for reaffirmation. Praised and condemned with equal vehemence by rival factions, the plan has been operating during the past two years on a slim majority in the council and must rise or fall in the coming election...
...come sufficiently early in the term to preserve the remnants of summer tutoring. If it becomes impossible to schedule make-ups before the last week in October, over seventy percent of the men quizzed indicated a willingness to come during the summer or take an examination just before the fall term registration...
...weightmen in the United States. After placing third in the IC4A hammer throw last spring Felton won the national Canadian championship and placed second in the national A.A.U. meet in Lincoln, Nebraska, this summer. Working under Varsity weight coach Ed Flanagan, he has been practicing his hammer throwing this fall and consistently throwing over 170 feet. Only one man in the country currently is throwing the ball and wire any farther than this...
Name-calling is only the logical end of what has been brewing since the cloudy October morning a year ago when the VTW popped full-grown from the skulls of its progenitors. It all started when a galaxy of eager veterans poured back into the Dramatic Club roster last fall, ready for action but not for what they called a "tightly-knit social organization." The older men, among them pre-war HD members, set up their own "veterans' workshop" producing unit, chose a play, and were promptly read out of the club for "insubordination" by the insulted hierarchy. Pulling into...
...from the madding crowd," the Varsity cross country runner asks for and gets little glory. He spends the fall afternoons chasing wind-swept leaves along some deserted woodland path, over hill and dale...