Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Applications for admission to the College next fall are pouring in upon the Admission Office in a greater flood than ever before, Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admission, announced last week...
...foot layer of granite-hard ice. There is a tradition that on March 17 Saint Patrick turns "the stone warm side up" to make the soft, drying west wind blow over Ireland. Two days before the Saint's day, a thaw came, but with it a ten-hour fall of rain and sleet. Ireland's rivers boiled in swollen anger, flooding the lush valleys in Meath, Carlow, Athlone, Cork and Wexford. In Kilkenny town the floods were the worst in living memory...
...Hardest Fall. On the other hand, durable-goods makers had done poorly in 1946. Now that they were reaching peak production, they were doing very well. On the basis of General Motors annual report last week Wall Streeters computed that G.M. earned $73 million in the last quarter of 1946, a rate which would pour in a record $292 million in net profits this year -if all went well. But it was the durable-goods industries which were now faced with new wage demands. And there was no guarantee that price cuts would eliminate them. Ford has cut prices...
...businessmen to charge less than the traffic would bear, there seemed to be small hope of general price reductions until a drastic drop in buying power forced them. Everyone was content to let George do it. And the longer prices remained unreasonably high, the farther-and faster-they would fall when the inevitable drop came...
...lips pettishly drooping, her head in a cap of short black curls, her small breasts, her hips, her waist, set off by her silk dress, the sister of Miss Browne walked as if at any moment, if she shrugged her shoulders again, she could make her clothes fall off her. Her dress had some small design of red and white daisies. She looked at us tenderly and without innocence...