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Word: fall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last fall, Professor Pound carried nine hours of teaching on his weekly schedule. He grades all term papers and examinations himself, maintaining "I do not think it is fair to my students to have assistants do the work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roscoe Pound Holds Last Class at University Today, Will Retire July 1 | 5/13/1947 | See Source »

...drawbridge, the counterbalanced movabale sections whic rise & fall on a seesaw principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stinking Fish | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Marrying Season. Until last fall, when the U.S. chargé d'affaires in India visited Nepal for the purpose of decorating the Maharaja with the Legion of. Merit, only a handful of Americans had ever visited the country. But last fortnight the doings of the exotic Americans competed as an attraction with local goings on. This is the Nepalese marrying season. Beginning at 5:30 in the mornings, the streets of Kathmandu echo with sounds of three-man orchestras, flute, drum and tambourine, which accompany the bridegrooms, sitting in small palanquins, on their way to the weddings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Goodbye to All That | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Next day, dressed in slacks and sports coat after a swim in the Dead Sea, Bernstein told newsmen exuberantly: "The Palestine Orchestra is potentially one of the greatest in the world. It should make a trip to the States next fall, but first it needs two solid months of real hard work under a single conductor." He gazed dreamily out of the window of Jerusalem's modernistic Eden Hotel and mused, "I hope I can be the guy to pull that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bernstein in Palestine | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Familiar red-coated figures on the fall gridiron, the bandsmen will provide music for the processional and ceremonies in Tercentenary Theater on June 5, and will take part in the parade to the Yale baseball game on June 4 as part of the Class Day festivities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: June Graduates, Guests Will Hear Concert by Band | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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