Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regular season, which opens April 14 against Syracuse, the snow has fallen on all alike, or as Munro puts it, "all in the same soup." But with such a wealth of veterans, the varsity may find the soup more congenial than many of its fellow sloshers...
...members of Washington's Parent-Teacher Association reel off a series of gloomy facts and figures about the capital's elementary schoolteacher shortage, Mrs. Arthur Riordan produced some evidence of her own to show the House Appropriations Committee just how low today's teacher standards have fallen. On one first-grade exercise paper she produced, the sevens had been written backwards. On another, three plus six made eight and two plus three made six. On still another, truck had become truk and trains trims. What alarmed Mrs. Riordan was not the mistakes themselves: it was the fact...
...Well on the way toward matching his own world's mile record (3:58), Australia's John Landy sprinted toward the last lap of a race at Melbourne's Olympic Park Arena, saw competitor Ron Clarke trip and sprawl in front of him, hurdled the fallen runner and tore a tendon as he pulled up short to help him from the track. "Get going, John," urged Clarke. Reassured, Landy tore after the leaders and won in the remarkable time...
Rain & Fogged Film. To find out whether the air mass actually traveled around the earth, the Japanese wrote to scientists along its theoretical route asking if they had seen any signs of it. Confirmation came from Paris, where radioactive rain had fallen. The fission products from faraway Nevada had also fogged photographic film as they drifted over Europe. Dr. Miyake is sure that the rest of the trajectory mapped out for the "tracer" is also accurate. The north-and-south waviness of the route is characteristic of the high altitude winds that blow around the earth in north temperate latitudes...
H.L.U. membership has fallen in the past few years from 250 in 1952 to a present 70. Lack of definite policy, Frank said recently, has been one of the reasons for the organization's sharp membership drop...