Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce Herbert Hoover, proceeded to circumvent partially the artificially high price of new rubber by turning to the use of reclaimed rubber and other substitutes. As a result the scarcity artificially created by Great Britain has progressively ceased to exist and the price of rubber has accordingly and progressively fallen...
...Chinese press of Peking told excitedly in dainty, complex characters, last week, strange news of the great but fallen Scholar War Lord...
...reading but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' " Mr. Dodgson told them how Alice had followed the white rabbit down a hole in the ground and how she had fallen for a long way until she landed on a heap of sticks and dry leaves, how she had foolishly eaten a cake that said...
That this view is coming to be adopted even in London was shown when Prime Minister Baldwin recently appointed a commission to report upon the advisability of repealing or modifying the Stevenson Act (TIME, March 5). Already the price of rubber has fallen in anticipation that the Commission will report against further curtailment; and it seemed last week that the British Empire has been definitely forced out of its monopolistic position in the world rubber market...
...Gigli (tenor) was last week as fidgety as the man who wore the first collapsible top hat. He was trying out a new chauffeur. It was hard to change after being accustomed, for seven years, to the way Gilbert Fabbri shifted gears and turned corners. But Chauffeur Fabbri had fallen dead within the entrance of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, just before going to fetch Tenor Gigli's two children from school. And Tenor Gigli had been unable to continue rehearsal that afternoon...