Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forced to endure a protracted breach of good taste. When the sentence was read, he commiserated the jury for the caddish behavior which, he felt, had been forced upon them. "You couldn't help it," said he. "You had to do your duty." Nevertheless, a precedent has fallen. There is law west of the Pecos...
...fallen Labor Government authorized the tremendous expenditures involved, and it is more than certain that the Tories will carry on. The orders were placed, one with the English Government dirigible plant at Barrow, the other with the private but all powerful firm of Vickers, Ltd., which Sir Basil Zaharoff, Europe's mystery man, is said to control. The English call one the "Socialist" ship, the other the "Capitalist." But whether Labor or Tory is in power, the British always think of Empire, and the ships will connect England with India and Australia in four stages...
...experiment would seem to have been unsuccessful inasmuch as the Elis failed to recoup their fallen fortunes even after the sugar had been injected, but the stimulating effects were clearly noticeable, and it was held that the defeat was due more to the strength of the opposing team, than to the absence of potency in the sugar...
...accomplishing itself, has destroyed the Liberal party. The bloodless creature, formed by the Liberals as a guide and lantern, has stifiled its creators. If Liberals hold to their tradition, they will inevitably identify themselves completely with the party of inaction, for the task and glory of remarking England have fallen under the championship of a more courageous and more vigorous party...
...strange things is to see how Gandhi has fallen from power. Now he is regarded in India as nothing more than a religious fanatic. That is because he has accomplished nothing...