Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scandal had been shaping up ever since the House Campaign Expenditures Committee and the Kansas City Star began investigating the primary day balloting last fall. They had discovered plenty of evidence of fraud at the polls, demanded that the Justice Department look into it. While Attorney General Tom Clark dawdled, a Jackson County grand jury opened the ballot boxes from 34 out of 255 precincts, found a "deliberate, calculated and premeditated plan" to miscount, steal and buy votes. Said the jury, which had already indicted 71: "It is our belief that Roger C. Slaughter was deprived of the nomination...
...Next fall, as a reluctant concession to the Ministry of Education, Eton will admit two state-supported boys - but only as an "experiment." Says Eton's 74-year-old Provost Sir Henry Marten, who was Princess Elizabeth's private tutor in history: "We English are very slow, and we never rush into anything...
...London, where Father bawled his lines for the first time last week, prospects were not so rosy. London's critics (like Rome's-TIME, March 24) took the old boy for a fall. Hmmed the Daily Graphic: "New York has been convulsed for seven years. . . . Why?" The Daily Telegraph found it "all very pleasant in an elementary way [but] not as good as all that." The News Chronicle was inclined to blame the slow-paced British cast (headed by Leslie Banks and Sophie Stewart), who "struggle hard not to give the impression that they are foundering...
With September's registration, the vast volume of business in the Veterans Office will begin to diminish. By fall, Monro, who officially succeeds Dean-elect Wilbur J. Bender on July 1, will be the sole remaining counsellor in the office, and his work will be limited to administration of Veteran's Administration business. The last returning veterans will enter College with this fall's registration of '51, and with them the task of screening applicants will revert to the Committee on Admissions...
Bedding and board, except for a very few of the early registrants, are in the southern section of the Yard and in the Kirkland House dining hall, respectively. Rooms have been assigned to fill up Wigglesworth, Grays, Matthews, and Straus beyound what has already been assigned for the fall term...