Word: falling
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More & more people fall for this line. While I was in Yugoslavia a score of British Labor M.P.s were being taken on a conducted tour of the country. Afterwards one of them told me: "We had complete freedom to go wherever we wanted, and we were all deeply impressed by what we saw ... I am convinced that Yugoslavia is moving in the direction of our Western democracies." And so forth. Such Titotalitarianism was uncomfortably remindful of those British Conservatives in the '305 who used to return full of enthusiasm from the Hitlerian Nürnberg rallies...
...lies in the over-abundance of dormitory space in the University. The Administration has chosen to maintain the present size of the plant. To keep the income stable, therefore, it must spread a smaller population thinner. It is working toward the removal of all upperclassmen from the Yard next fall. As a result, an indirect rent rise will be felt throughout the college, with incoming freshmen bearing the heaviest load. Thinning in the Houses is the first step in this unfortunate direction...
...Smith were tail and good workers under the basket; be decided to concentrate his attack around the two lanky forwards. He built a double-pivot game around them, and it promptly paid off. Rockwell's work put him among the nation's top scorers by the middle of the fall...
...major part of the report was dedicated to a discussion of General Education, which, the President felt, "will affect the educational future of Harvard College for the balance of the century." The General Education program was made a required part of the College curriculum last fall...
British Captain Clinton, an army officer among the camp's airmen, had been a university student before the war. The scrap of paper blown to freedom by the wind made him think of the deus ex machina that so often solved Greek tragedies. His thoughts turned to the fall of Troy. Suddenly he "found himself running ... an idea racing through his mind . . . Peter-he must find Peter...