Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover sped like wasps, last week, to buzz in a secluded and exotic Chinese garden in the village of Tongka, not far from Canton. The lord of the garden and of the village-a model village-is the venerable Tang Shao-yi, perhaps the last great statesman of the fallen Manchu Regime to survive in dignity and honor. Round his placid head the nasty rumors and insinuations buzzed. Soon...
...terrified and superstitious population touched the apogee of panic, last week, when a rumor spread that Divine Vengeance had fallen because of a specific and impious act of the Bulgarian Parliament. This act was to meet and discuss the project of a U. S. loan on a Holy Day, namely last Good Friday...
...under the strain of change in temperature; is used therefore in making lamp chimneys, incandescent lamps, baking dishes. Enamel ware, plumbing fixtures, chemical apparatus owe much of their resistance to borax. But wherever borax has gone in, the price has gone up. Since the discovery of kernite, borax has fallen steadily in price as shown last week by the Industrial Bulletin (monthly) of Arthur D. Little, Inc.; expectations are that this decrease will continue, not only because of the increased supply but because of the competition between borax from brine and borax from kernite...
...with all three boats stroking a steady 32-beat. In the closing half-mile straightaway, the Ineligibles failed to sprint in time to cover the determined rush started by Captain Watts and, had it not been for the clever steering of their coxswain, C. H. Pforzheimer '28, would have fallen more than a length behind. Open water still separated them from the Lawrence crew at the finish...
...Barbee '28, one of the leaders of college pitching last season, has already cut two notches on his record of victories. Virginia and Georgetown having fallen before his skill. On the spring trip last year Duplin of Georgetown, then a substitute, came through with a hit in the pinch which lost the game for the Harvard hurler. In the meeting last week Duplin, as regular left fielder, contributed three of his team's 12 hits...