Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...debutante of last season and daughter of Edgar L. G. Prochnik, last Austrian Minister to the U. S., turned professional songstress, hoped "to get my family on its feet" by swinging with Bandsman Meyer Davis at private social functions. Said she: "I do not intend to fall in love until I am 23. I believe love is something you can ward off if you wish, and I wish to. When I do fall in love I will prefer a European man, an Englishman or an Austrian. They usually are more powerful, strong, gallant and charming than American...
...leave 200 feet of open water. The 25 concrete pontoons are honeycombed with watertight compartments. From both sides of each floating section a 65-ton reinforced concrete anchor juts into the clay bottom of the lake. Hydraulic adjustments on the anchor cables accommodate the bridge to the rise & fall of the lake level (it varies about three feet in a year...
Tree Rings. Dr. Andrew Ellicott Douglass, University of Arizona astronomer, is the founder of the 20th-century science of "dendrochronology"-telling time (in years) by means of tree rings. The thickness of the annual growth rings in trees is proportional to the year's rainfall. Thus the rings fall in patterns corresponding to the varying rainfall supplies during the life span of the tree. By matching patterns from logs of recent date to successively older & older specimens, Dr. Douglass carried a continuous record back several hundred years. Examining logs in the ruins of Indian pueblos built before Columbus...
Political, psychological, philosophical, and economic backgrounds of the European War, as well as the relation of American democracy to that conflict, will be discussed in the thirty afternoon and evening courses of college grade offered this fall and winter for Greater Boston adults by the Commission on Extension Courses, representing eleven local educational institutions...
There will be an all- University golf tournament this fall, open to Freshmen and upperclassmen alike. Pairings have been made, and match play will start this week at Belmont...