Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor at the 20th anniversary dinner of the United Press, a Scripps-Howard news association, Mr. Coolidge told the offending editors to their faces that when any newspaper adopts the editorial attitude on American foreign policy which Scripps-Howard has pursued, every informed person knows that it has fallen from the high estate which is our common heritage, and becoming no longer worthy of regard, is destined to defeat and failure. No American can profit by selling his own country for foreign favor...
...Donaghy '29, who led Henry Chauncey '28 by the scant margin of five points a week ago has taken undisputed possession of first place among the individual hitters, having bolstered his average to .434 while that of Chauncey, still his nearest rival, has fallen to .355. W. W. Lord '28 and W. B. Jones '28 are the only regulars beside Donaghy whose averages have gone up as a result of their hitting in the last three games. H. W. Burns '28 still leads the field in runs scored with 19, almost a fourth of the team's total...
...into a ring, each prepared to force his opponent's clavicles to the mat. Scuffling for a hold, the two grunters permitted their respective skulls to collide with great force. Unconscious - "even for wrestlers," as able Sports Writer McGeehan put it- both fell and lay where they had fallen. The referee was puzzled; noted that Hallas was resting on his back; Parelli on his side; proclaimed the comatose Parelli winner...
...close of a concert season is an emotional time for the faithful who have listened all winter. When the fast note has fallen away, shouts rise above the handclapping. The conductor becomes an object of overt adoration, especially if he has won the heart of his audience only recently. So it was last week in Carnegie Hall, at the end of Guest Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler's third season with the New York Philharmonic. In 1925 he first came as guest conductor, a studious young man from Berlin and Vienna who had pleased without enchanting. Last year...
...blizzard raged. The distress signals ceased. The crew on shore waited for weather before flying out in a reserve plane to see how their chief fared among floes and hummocks which split, sometimes, with thunderous reports into leads of open water; which close again, sometimes, crushing whatever may have fallen in them like flies in a glacier...