Word: falling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finals of the fall tennis tournament in the class A singles were settled yesterday afternoon when Harris Coggeshall 1L. seeded number one, and fourteenth National ranking player, defeated R. S. Murphy '33, seeded number four and former National junior champion, in five sets...
Then, this Fall someone found out that the House Plan was to be tried out at Yale as well as Harvard, and the shooting began. As these things always go, people wrote letters to the News jumping on that paper for everything it had done, just as if, when you "let George do it", George had to do it the way you wanted. Nobody cared enough about the matter last Spring to object but now that class unity is to be broken up, things are humming. I should think the News would lose patience and start calling names back...
Karl and Anna. Men who fall in love with women merely by hearing about them or looking at their photographs or reading their letters are usually found only in empurpled romances. The Theatre Guild's seasonal curtain-raiser attempts to make such a man seem a creature of reality. In a Russian prison camp, Hero Karl is tortured by the lash of his captors and by the sick, contagious desire of his fellow-prisoner Richard for his wife Anna. Richard vividly describes Anna's habits, her womanliness, the mole on her hip, until Karl feels that he knows...
Inventor Whittum entered Worcester Polytechnic Institute this fall. Last week he received a curious scholarship of $600 given annually by Henry Jones Fuller, Manhattan banker and Worcester trustee, to that member of the entering class who has shown greatest "Yankee Ingenuity." Should Inventor Whittum win another scholarship in his succeeding years at Worcester, from Trustee Fuller he will receive another...
...fortnight ago, all seemed quiet on the University of Illinois' midwestern front. But the rambling campus slept fitfully, for later in the day undergraduates were to elect sophomore, junior, senior class officers. Not for some time had the political position of the fraternity cabal been challenged. But this fall, one John Granata, brother of Pete Granata, Chicago precinct captain in Morris Eller's "bloody twentieth" ward, had rallied about him the "barbarians" (non-fraternity men) to form an independent party...