Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Associated Press reports major conflagration in Tokyo. You may express to the Foreign Office the profound sympathy of this Government that this misfortune has fallen upon a city which was already struggling so gallantly against adversities. You may further make plain our hope that the Japanese authorities will have no hesitation in calling upon us if there is any assistance we can lend...
...happen to be a more or less humble employe oi the Company referred to in that article and cannot but resent the gratuitous (?) "knock" which you have given it. The only charitable explanation I can think of for your publishing it is that you have fallen a victim to the same malicious propaganda that has been noticed in other directions. At any rate, if the contents of your weekly are to be judged by the material contained in the article referred to, my confidence in anything that TIME may publish has been shattered...
...property to which the University has fallen heir consists of he income from several corporations controlled by Mr. Ward. The University is now the virtual owner of the Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate Corporation and the Lister and Gum Corporation...
...American Society for Psychical Research, founded by Sir William Barrett and Dr. Hodgson and maintained for many years with distinguished ability by Dr. James Hyslop, appears to have fallen on evil days and no longer to be actuated by pure and disinterested motives. For this reason, Dr. McDougall explained, it has been thought necessary in the interests of science to found another society which shall be committed to no dogma or hypothesis and whose business shall be to investigate and record facts by scientific methods and with the help of special sciences and of photography...
...Fall Guy. A pleasant game might be played at guessing just which parts of this comedy the spectator had viewed before. It has bright echoes of Clarence and The First Year, besides other ingredients. In fact, it is the unheroic young hero of The First Year fallen among thieves...