Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Last fall Superintendent Huff dedicated his new school, complete with WPA oil paintings. New Mexico's Governor John E. Miles exclaimed: "I sometimes think this man Raymond Huff uses elastic dollars, he makes them go so far." This summer Superintendent Huff began to build a stadium, which, when it is finished next month, will have a football field, cinder track, lighted tennis courts, roller and ice skating rinks, barbecue pits. He also started construction of a new cafeteria, put his students to work last fortnight making dishes for it from Clayton clay...
...Auric) was sticking it out in Southern France, and Swiss Citizen Honegger had fled to Switzerland. Milhaud. who had been vacationing in Provence, packed up what belongings he could carry and started for the U. S. where Califor nia's Mills College had offered him a job next fall lecturing on musical composition...
...critics, who had not been hearing much Milhaud lately, found that Darius Milhaud could still turn a phrase of hard-bitten counterpoint as expertly as any of his contemporaries. A massive, close-knit dead march, the Cortege Funebre was imposingly militant rather than sad, made The Netherlands' fall ring with the relentless finality of doom...
...accepted Theologian Horton's answer (a determined "Yes"), believers of all creeds-and of none-found his latest book as full of close-knit arguments as a Jonathan Edwards sermon was full of hellfire. U. S. controversialists who wish to argue with Dr. Horton, however, must wait until fall: he is on another jaunt...
Seven years ago Mrs. Carreaud bought War Glory, a three-year-old Man o' War colt. Like his famed sire, War Glory was a handsome chestnut. On Eastern tracks he won many a race, brought Mrs. Carreaud $55,000 before he was retired to stud in 1937. Fall of that year, Mrs. Carreaud leased War Glory to Mrs. Rolph who, like many another fashionable young Californian, was going in for breeding thoroughbreds-partly as a hobby, partly as a business. The lease was for four years (at $5,000 a year), with a clause permitting cancellation, for any reason...