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Word: falling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this week, after his shortest Georgia visit (nine days), he entrained for Washington, waving cheery farewell to his Georgia friends: "I'll be back in November-I hope!" Last year, in an equally anxious April, he had called out, "I'll be back in the fall-if we don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Breathing Spell | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...longer ago than 1938, "Market Street" had ladled out a plump $100 per division to knock out old Gifford Pinchot's third try at the Governorship; that fall, when Republican Arthur Horace (Breaker Boy) James tossed the Little New Deal of Governor George H. Earle III out of Harrisburg, Republican committeemen carried rolls of at least $100 per division. And in 1939's mayoralty fight, an alleged cascade of currency from the offices of G. 0. P. City Chairman Jay Cooke won the election between 4 and 6 p.m. with a $100-per-division allotment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Pew at Valley Forge | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Johnny Harvard '43, hot lick artist on the slide trombone, easily made the Harvard Band last fall. But the hand of welcome was extended palm up: $5.00 for dues, $9.00 for use of uniform, and another $5.00 as a deposit against fines and incidentals. The return for this sum and six hours of practice a week was free admission to the football games, a few hockey and basketball matches, an H.A.A.-sponsored trip to Princeton by bus and second-rate boat, a watch fob at the annual banquet (for which Johnny shelled out another $2.90). Many of his classmates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN | 5/4/1940 | See Source »

...this fall the Band even had to pay the University for Sanders when it practiced there. The maintenance department charges them for the equipment used in mid-game stunts, and they also stand the cost of upkeep for the big drums and their few other instruments. Most fellows use their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN | 5/4/1940 | See Source »

...said that the present members of the board will run two monthly issues next fall with the help of Freshman candidates from the class of 1944, after which this year's board will retire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debts Force Freshman Paper to Change From Weekly to Monthly | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

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