Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Police Commissioner Enright of New York was taking a vacation on the Caribbean Sea, a great hullabaloo was raised over the "crime wave" which was convulsing the city because of the evil ways in which the police had fallen. Figures appeared showing the prevalency of crime and the failure of the police to handle the situation. At the same time the department under fire refused to allow any inspection of its records, or even to answer questions. When Commissioner Enright returned, he published an explosive letter condemning the "muckraking" tactics of newspapers and denying the existence of a crime...
Reports received yesterday from the graduate drive showed that the campaign among the graduates according to classes had been a success, although it had fallen short of the $2,800,000 mark which had been set. This campaign, which lasted only four weeks, resulted in adding 2000 formerly non-subscribing alumni to the Endowment Fund roster and in the receipt of an additional million dollars. This was achieved in the face of adverse financial conditions both at home and abroad, and without the incentive of the initial effort of last year...
...Committee and the Senior voters that the nature of the work of these committees requires members who are qualified for their position and are able to give sufficient time to their duties. In past years, the great mass of work which these two committees have had to perform has fallen on the shoulders of their respective chairmen,--a burden far too great for one man to carry. This has been caused by the disregard of the voters for the qualifications of the committee members who have often been men occupied in spring sports, or otherwise not qualified to serve...
...administration of college activities. As it seems conclusively shown, however, that the more active members of the classes never fail to find time to vote, and, being human, invariably vote for their friends, the sole method of getting out of the rut into which college polls have fallen is to continue the present more or less compulsory participation in the elections...
...facetious ivy-orator excited the risibilities of his classmates by a masterly discussion of the then-mooted problem, "Does the Union Suit." His efforts at humor brought the more ready response because in those old, forgotten times (of 1917) the Union did not, palpably, suit. It had fallen into grievous desuetude...