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Word: fallen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning at 7:00, whistles shrieked in the collieries of Pennsylvania. Grinning miners, with carbide lamp on cap, went down into the dark. Carefully they tapped on the roofs to make sure no rock had loosened since their last visit 170 days before. Busily they loaded fallen rock and repropped the roof where it was necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: COAL | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Louisiana membership may once have been 50,000. Last year a law was passed requiring public registration of names of members, and only a few hundred names were filed. Its political influence, never great, has waned, and the number of "tips" to prohibition officers has greatly fallen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Decline | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Texas. According to a Grand Dragon who left the Klan last fall, it had 97,000 members a year and a half ago, and now has less than 18,000. Several of its locals are in the hands of "supervisors", virtual receivers. Its power has fallen so rapidly that Klan support is a liability to a politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Decline | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...have of late fallen into a deplorable habit of sleeping into the morning. It will be good for me to get up today, and it will be small effort. Dr. Allport, who gives Social Ethics 8b, is talking at 9 o'clock in Emerson A on "Judging Intelligence from Photographs." Dr. Allport has been interested in intelligence tests and his lecture on the possibility of photographs as psychological data should be well worth hearing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/25/1926 | See Source »

...Fallen, Nev. 'Warped Souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 15, 1926 | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

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