Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...being created-something that for our own time is the Dreadful Forest, as the Black Forest was a region of terror in the middle ages, or as the Swamp of the Great Dismal was in the days of the runaway slaves. This war of people freezing as they fall, of petrified corpses, of armies falling into lakes, of feeble sunlight touching the warriors for a few moments a day, is something for which neither the historians nor the poets have prepared us. The only poem that I can think of that bears some relation to the Russian invasion is Ralph...
...Lutheran, Baptist, Seventh-Day Adventist leaders, who came to protest his appointment of a representative to the Papal State (TIME, Jan. 1). To these Mr. Roosevelt outlined, in deepest secrecy, his tentative program for peace proposals. Later, it was learned, the appointment to Rome of Myron C. Taylor may fall through. The President wants to take advantage of the Vatican's unsurpassed diplomatic coverage through world-wide listening posts; the Vatican is not so keen...
...leaves are falling; we too will fall like them. The leaves die because God wills it, but we die because the English will it. Next spring, no one will remember any longer the dead leaves or the killed poilus. Life will pass on over our graves...
...least twenty-one scholarship will be awarded to deserving incoming Freshmen entering next fall from sections of the country outside the Eastern states, it was announced last night by President Conant...
...society threatens to give at the seams. It is a strange time of year--this exam period, when for once the students work while the Faculty plays. Along the Charles the windows light up quickly as darkness comes, and hands reach up to pull the shades, then fall back to turning the pages. Blue books are every day laid in neat little piles, A--M and N--Z, as if on a sacrificial altar. Alarm clocks jangle so early that they scare the mice back into their holes. Extra chairs are brought into the libraries, and the book return service...