Word: befallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nome, Alaska, the schooner Maude made port after an absence of two years, then headed out again for San Francisco where her owner, Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway, had instructed that she should be sold (TIME, Aug. 24). From Nome were relayed some of the adventures that had befallen the Maude during the months when she lay locked in ice-floes off East Cape, Siberia, first trying to drift up over the Pole, then trying to get home...
Germans claimed with overpowering logic that the whole area, rich in coal and other minerals, was geographically and economically indivisible; but divided it was. "Never," said that great German Jew, Walther Rathenau, "has such a hard fate befallen our land." An economic condominium was successfully negotiated which had for its object the preservation from chaos of the highly organized industrial area; but, in view of the fact that the Poles were agitating to oust all Germans from the country, it was not surprising that dual control was a failure, resulting in tremendous diminution of output...
...odious crime perpetrated upon the faithful Sirdar of my Army has profoundly affected me as well as all the members of my Government. I deeply regret that such a mishap should have befallen a high official of my Army, a man celebrated for his chivalrous character, high courage and great qualities, who has rendered such signal services to the Army...
...appointment of a commission to study the causes of de pression and to suggest means of removing them. ¶To the Naval Governor, Capt. Henry H. Hough, of the tornado-torn Virgin Islands the President addressed ,a message: "Am deeply distressed to hear of the tragedy that has befallen the people of the Virgin Islands. Will you convey to them my sincere sympathy, particularly to the bereaved relatives of those who have been killed?" ¶Ambassador Houghton, home on vacation from Berlin, called at the White House, told the President and the press that he had great hopes...
...Jews-a contention not entirely true. In other countries where the common rudiments of law and order are preserved more by instinct than by compulsion, many millions of people have been horified by the injustice of the execution and pained at the shame and disgrace which has befallen the name of Russia. Regarded dispassionately, the execution seems the quintessence of arrogance and unmixed contempt for the opinion of the world. It is in effect proof positive that the autocracy of the Tsar has only been exchanged for that of the dregs of the Russian proletariat. It appears that the Soviet...