Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toys, if there were a demand for them we should manufacture them. As a matter of fact, however, the demand has fallen off considerably of late and it is hard to find tin soldiers any more...
...week without teeth. It was announced at the Walter Reid Hospital in Washington that he has in large measure recovered from the illness which forced him to return home from Chile, where he headed the Taena-Arica plebiscite commission. Following the extraction of his teeth, his blood pressure has fallen from 185 to 140 or 145 and the toxic poisoning has been reduced...
...During the last few years at Harvard," he said, "baseball has fallen into about the worst rut that it has ever known at the University. This is undoubtedly due to a great many causes but the most important one, I believe, is the lack of interest which is shown by the undergraduates. Less enthusiasm and spirit of competition is being shown on the baseball diamond than in any other major sport...
Since autumn, three Finance Ministers (Caillaux, Painlevé and Loucheur) and two Premiers (Painlevé twice) have fallen on this one tax issue, without being able to get as far as MM. Briand and Doumer got last week?without being able to get the Chamber to indorse any program whatever for recouping the finances of France. Therefore, M. Briand's triumph was great. The Senators, eager to help him, prepared to "amend" the crazy-quilt bill into something workable. It was considered certain that they will stretch the constitutional limits of their amending power to the uttermost. Presumably when the bill goes...
Brand van Aardt had fallen back on the plain little school mistress, Emma, telling her honestly she was second choice. She had accepted honestly, wanting him even that way. They had grown together, honest friends, not exalted but not unhappy. He had amassed wealth. When Mary Glenn came home with her ineffectual husband and her fraying tissue of appearances, Brand had unobtrusively put them on the farm. It was a livelihood for Elliott Glenn, who was supinely grateful. For Mary it was a refuge, but also a torment. Her snobbery remained swollen while her pretences shriveled and her beauty went...