Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...eccentricities, Bertrand Russell is an expert mathematician, an original philosopher and one of the most lucid modern writers, he has always been welcome in the world's great universities. A U. S. resident since 1938, he has taught at University of Chicago, University of California (this year), next fall will lecture at Harvard. Last week Bertrand Russell's career took a surprising turn: he was appointed a full professor and head of the philosophy department (beginning next February) of big, sprawling, pragmatic College of the City of New York...
...Swarthmore are long, irksome hours of practice, subsidization of athletes. Swarthmore boys and girls play games for fun - two-thirds of them represent their college in intercollegiate sports, on varsity, junior varsity or sub-junior varsity teams. Best Swarthmore teams are in lacrosse (boys) and field hockey (girls). Last fall Swarthmore's varsity football team was unbeaten. Dr. Aydelotte was delighted...
...time with her 20-year-old daughter and stepsons. While her accompanist Edwin McArthur was busy denying to newspapermen rumors that she was retiring this year, Mme Flagstad herself was telling John and his mother that she longed more & more for domesticity, that she might return in the fall, but that there was an excellent chance she would...
This time Franklin Roosevelt did not hit the jackpot. By the end of 1929 citizens who still had a nickel were keeping their hands in their pockets. Camco went into receivership in 1934. Its investors lost millions. Director Roosevelt had resigned (in the fall of 1928) to run for Governor of New York. For the time being the Roosevelt interest in slot machines waned, and almost undisputed kingpin of the U. S. slot and vending machine trade (pinball games, crackerjack machines, juke boxes) was once more Chicago's Mills Novelty...
...Bill Daughaday certainly seems to be a winner. If Dick Thomas loses his match, it will only be because of lack of confidence. Jim Latson had a close match at 155 against Pete Illman last year and with Dick Thomas's rapid-fire aggressiveness, he is almost sure to fall...