Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Designer Christian Dior, who claims to have brought about the fall of the hemline, told an inquiring Los Angeles reporter that the cocktail-gown neckline should be "low enough to be attractive, but not low enough to be indecent."* Just where is that boundary? "That," philosophized Designer Dior, "is a philosophical question...
...Fall to Come? Spurred by all these devils, Dun & Bradstreet's index of the wholesale price per pound of 31 staple foods last week hit $7.02, an alltime record (a year ago it was $4.99). Wholesale prices, which had been dragged up by the skyrocketing food prices, were within 7% of the alltime high reached in 1920-and the rise in recent weeks has been far sharper than it was after World War I. Would there be the same drop s? Nobody knew for sure, but there was another flurry of nervous talk of recession and buyers' strikes...
...This fall, for the first time since formal athletics were resumed on a large scale a year ago, that goal is definitely in sight. Coaches who last year were starting from scratch in building new teams out of new talent will have a chance to go much further this year with a solid foundation...
When Dick Harlow greeted the 1947 football squad almost three weeks ago in the opening day of practice, be found a nucleus of 20 returning lettermen and strong prospects from last fall's Freshmen and Chief Boston's undefeated Jayvees. Twelve months ago he made his long awaited return from war service to Soldiers Field on a similar mission to find a mean of unfamiliar talent interspersed with a smattering of 1942 players and members of informal wartime squads, and the opening game scarcely a month away. The resulting seven wins out of nine after such a precarious start were...
Schedules were another wartime casualty, particularly for the football team. When the Crimson eleven returned to active duty last fall, many familiar opponents were caught without an open date, and it is hoped that such Ivy League rivals as Penn, Columbia, and Army will be worked in soon again...