Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor government in England is down; but in the words of that champion of the fallen. Evangeline Booth, not yet out. Premier Ramsay MacDonald is to seek dissolution of Parliament to carry his appeal for support over the heads of that body to the voters of the kingdom...
...German wags asserted that Foreign Minister Stresemann's malady was due to the chastisements he had received at the hands of President Ebert and Chancellor Marx. He had previously opposed Germany's entrance into the League, but the unanimous decision of the Cabinet, quoted above, showed that he had fallen into line with his chiefs...
...Government's estimate of the cotton crop, based on the condition of 59.3 on Sept. 1, was 12,787,000 bales. When, on Sept. 16, the Government revised its estimate, the condition figure had fallen to 55.4, and accordingly the new crop estimate was placed at 12,596,000 bales. The sudden cut of 191,000 bales in the estimates, when announced, precipitated a small-sized "bear panic" on the Cotton Exchange, wherein a good-sized "short interest" hastened to cover at smartly rising prices...
...straightforward, unaffected and hard-hitting. Because of it, the Red Cross sent him to Europe as an observer during the War. Because of it, he was chosen to sit on the jury which awarded Edward W. Bok's peace prize. Because of it, a score of other things have fallen his way. He was in the Roosevelt Progressive Movement from 1912 to 1916, but nominally he is still Republican?not a regular, just a Republican. He turns the shafts of his humor on friend and foe alike; he speaks what he thinks; and so he is William Allen White...
...schools themselves. Where standards are already high, nothing need be done. It is the school whose standards are low that is the concern of the donors of the award, and it is precisely at this point that the second fundamental obstacle arises. If the morale of a school has fallen to such a point that its directors are no longer disturbed by the necessarily poor showing of its graduates in college examinations, it is hardly probable that they will be aroused to reformatory efforts by the possibility of winning an appropriately designed metal shield. The prestige accompanying the award will...