Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress] to trample down their liberties and the American way of life. . . . It is going to require a lot of courage and a lot of action to forestall the enslavement of the N.A.M.-Taft-Hartley bill. Those whose wishbone is where their spinal column ought to be will fall by the wayside...
Other experts estimated crop damage at $160 million, gloomily predicted that the U.S. corn yield would fall 40% below last year...
...full moon rose from behind Boston's buildings, and from the Charles came a light breeze to mitigate the day's blistering heat. As the sky grew darker, and the trees lining the river became black silhouettes, any regular concert-goers present probably were irritated by the rise and fall of chatter and the calls of newsboys stepping over people's legs and bodies. But the Esplanade Concerts are not for these; they are for the man who feels like relaxing at that time of the day and year, who enjoys music unpretentiously and informally, without the restrictions imposed...
...Expansion is not contemplated," he added, "and fall registration figures will tell if the demand is beginning to taper off." Although there are 125 applications for the fall and at present only approximately 80 vacancies this ratio is not too alarming in view of the fact that last year an initial demand of 1200 dropped to 100 by December...
Five have disconnected their telephones as the first move in elaborate fall marital preparations. One summed up the group attitude with the view that it was easier to face married life with a college degree to loan on. All agreed it would be easier to diaper junior with hands free from a Hymarx Outline...