Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Museum of Natural History, have been cruising Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, off Greenland, in constant radio communication with the New York Times. Many a description of Arctic weather effects has been received, couched in Publisher Putnam's best editorial verbiage. Walrus, seals, narwhal and varied seafowl have fallen to the voyagers' trusty guns, a high moment coming last fortnight when the Putnams, father and son, and Dan Streeter touched off their rifles simultaneously into the bulk of a polar bear on a cake of pan ice. David Putnam, 13, veteran of William Beebe's last Galapagos...
...bones of flyers who have fallen on land from altitudes of 1,000 ft. or more, usually have to be dug out of the ground from beneath their flesh, through which they, being harder, are driven at the body's impact with the earth...
...Senatorship, the incumbent Irvine L. Lenroot battles Governor John Elaine, on whom has fallen the mantle of LaFollettism. Senator Lenroot is one of the many regular Republicans who was swept into office in the Harding landslide of 1920, even though he ran 270,000 votes behind the party ticket. His chief war cry in the present campaign is-"Divorce Wisconsin from the LaFollettes." Senator Lenroot is also a World Courter. In fact, he challenged Governor Elaine to a debate on the subject. The Governor could not be bothered; one of his henchmen offered to substitute. Whereupon, the Senator said sweetly...
...same general design. Then two months ago the Overland "Whippet," smallest of U. S. cars, came on the market. When Henry Ford reduced his prices a month ago, (TIME, June 28) no one of his executives could be induced to admit the obvious facts-that his sales had fallen off, that production schedules were curtailed, that sales must be induced by the lowered rates. Last week Edward S. ("Playboy") Jordan, with his penchant for quips and his casual naming of noncompetitive motor car makers, remarked: "The barbers in Detroit hotels and the smoking room oracles are feeling sorry for Henry...
Last week the politicians of France seemed at last somewhat chastened. Premier Herriot had fallen after only two days in office. As an earnest that they were willing to break party lines for once, some 300 Deputies, headed by Deputy Morinaud of Constantine, Algeria-a political nobody-signed a petition requesting that the President designate some outstanding statesman to form a Cabinet in which all parties would unite to save the franc. Naturally, M. Doumergue chose the potent War-President of France, the representative of French "Big Business," M. Raymond Poincaré. Soon Poincaré "presented" to M. le President...