Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...proponents of the plan succeed in getting the necessary 10 per cent of the voters at the last election, or approximately 5,500 people, to sign the petition, the plan will mandatorily be placed on the ballots next fall...
Defeated by a bare 1,760 votes in the fall of 1938, the proposed charter provoked a bitter verbal exchange between Cambridge city councilors and James M. Landis, dean of the Law School and head of the Plan E. Committee...
...been estimated with the co-operation of the State Department of Waterways that the distance from Larz Anderson bridge to Lake Waban on Wellesley's campus is approximately 32 miles. Although the river offers a generous sprinkling of obstacles such as dams and hydro-electric works, its actual fall is confined largely to the regions immediately adjacent to these developments...
Those who fall off will be safe enough if they land in the right place, as mattresses or nets will be placed in strategic spots, but, in order to be prepared for any eventuality, the Dramatic Club is considering taking out insurance on its actors...
...veteran newsman who was not misled was white-haired Leland Stowe, correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. Rejected last fall by the New York Herald Tribune because at 39 he was "too old to cover a war," Newsman Stowe went to Finland for Colonel Frank Knox's paper, sent back some of the most able, eloquent dispatches of that...