Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of their children, are now sharply increased. Thus a single child, which brought an exemption of ?36 ($175), last year, is at present worth ?60 ($292) in exemptions. Additional children are worth ?50 ($243); 4) Trifling alterations in the British tariff schedules will result, for example, in a fall of one farthing ?c) per pound in the retail price of sugar; 5) Finally Chancellor Churchill budgeted with satisfaction that, although Great Britain must pay upon her debt to the U. S. this year the sum of ?32,845,000, she will receive the nearly equivalent...
Soon Minister of Communications General John Metaxas hurried out to the quake area from Athens. Said he, after surveying Corinth: "Nothing but a heap of ruins remains. No house can be repaired, and structures which still threaten to fall must be pulled down. The material damage amounts to at least 620,000,000 drachmas ($8,000,000)." Fortunately the loss of life was slight, since the population of .Corinth, terrified by preliminary tremors, took refuge in the open before the major quakes began...
...Pneumonia. A large family of organisms called the pneumococci are responsible for the various types of pneumonia. They fall into four great groups, Types I, II, III, IV. For Types I and II excellent sera have been prepared from horses. These can be found in any large city in the world, including Montreal, although there was none obtainable in Quebec. Horse serum, however, makes many sick people worse. The foreign proteins introduced into the human body may cause chills, sweating, suffocation, fainting: obviously not the best stimulation for a Floyd Bennett with a temperature of 103 degrees; a pulse...
...American wives," said Mrs. Clarence G. Goodwin, onetime president of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, "fall into five classes." These were the classes...
...tiny garden situated upon the sunny expanse of the Square of Quiretti. in Rome, workmen erected a fountain whose light waters were to dance into the air and fall in a shower of silver sparks. The fountain was in the form of human figures, incompletely clothed; around the Square of Quiretti are numerous convents and educational institutions. The inmates of these houses disliked the fountain because of the nudity of its statuary; not long after its erection, Pope Pius XI himself sent deputies into the sunny plaza to gaze upon the fountain and determine the degree of its propriety...