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Word: falling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...There is a possibility that the European war will terminate soon. Even assuming that Japanese relations with the U. S. are not likely to change before the Presidential election and that there is no immediate risk of American interference in East Asia, it is possible that this fall will witness an important liquidation, the world over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: On the Alert | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Rural, red-faced Stewart Andes Maples, a Rutherford Countian, let his dental plate fall twice as he inveighed against "infernal, shameful roadhouses," click-clacked his support of Roosevelt "as a good Samaritan." Back snapped Mrs. W. C. Branch, "I have a little boy . . . who asks for nickels like they grow on trees. Mr. Roosevelt reminds me of my little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Letter Writers' Holiday | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...Last fall, two of the crammers (the University Tutoring School and Fletcher Briggs) gave up the ghost. Early in May the College Tutoring Bureau followed suit. Still busy, however, were the two biggest tutoring schools. Wolff's and Parker-Cramer. Last fortnight, Harvard's Dean A. Chester Hanford socked them in the solar plexus. Any student who attended a commercial tutoring school, he announced, would be "liable to disciplinary action." Harold A. Wolff, proprietor of the biggest school, promptly announced that his school would give up tutoring, would restrict itself to "educational counseling" of students "who have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Crammers Crushed | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...Executive Board of the Crimson Network announced last night that the Network will return to the air with the opening of the academic year next fall. The first broadcast has been tentatively set for the evening of September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Network Is Scheduled to Return to Air on September 24 | 6/9/1940 | See Source »

Selection of the three outstanding candidates for admission to the Harvard Medical School next fall as recipients of National Scholarships offered by the School under the University's "longterm" scholarship policy was announced today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MED SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED TO THREE | 6/9/1940 | See Source »

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