Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, work was resumed on the '51 Register which, if the Council this fall decides to back financially, may be converted into the usual Freshman Red Book...
Married and graduate students face a critical fall shortage of housing, with 300 applications for living quarters from married couples and an acute demand for furnished rooms from single students reported still unfilled yesterday...
...HARDER THEY FALL (343 pp.)-Budd Schulberg-Random House...
...manly art of modified murder, as the late ringsider W. O. McGeehan called it, has supplied Budd Schulberg, 33, with a subject even seamier than the gaudy and greedy Hollywood of his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? In The Harder They Fall, professional prize fighting is presented as a thoroughly crooked and brutal business. This point of view is entirely tenable, but as the theme of a full-length novel it gets tiresome. All the shocking details that Schulberg desperately dishes up cannot disguise the sophomoric quality of his storytelling, and readers will end up feeling that his book...
Jargon with a Trowel. The Harder They Fall shows a certain verve in the writing; the Eighth Avenue, Manhattan atmosphere and guttersnipe jargon are accurate, though laid on with a trowel; some of the minor characters-trainers, punch-drunk fighters, hangers-on-are human, pathetic and partly credible. Schulberg has hung around the sidelines of boxing for years, but only as a spectator. It is poor luck for him that Eddie Lewis' relationship with his boss is reminiscent of Jack Burden's with his (a fictional Huey Long) in last year's Pulitzer Prize novel...