Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to Mr. Eaton, M. Trotsky has fallen in love with brown-haired, lovely Anna Naumouv, 19-year-old daughter of a Moscow storekeeper. Léon became so infatuated wth Anna that he tried recently to turn Russia over, lock, stock and barrel, to Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the late Tsar. All M. Trotsky wanted in exchange was passports viséd for every country in Europe, so that he and his adored could flit hither and thither outside of Russia...
Activity is greatest in and about New York City, where shortage of buildings is greatest. Many other parts of the country have seemingly built up to their requirements, and as a result, amounts of construction there have for the three months this year fallen below totals for 1923. Yet so huge has been the volume of building about New York, that it has offset such declines and carried the nation's construction to new record figures...
...Dean's List is certainly a commendable feature, especially when considered together with the fact that the figures for probation and dropping of upper-classmen are in general no greater than those of last year. This fact, indeed, brings out clearly that the stiffening of college work has fallen with peculiar severity on the Freshmen...
Evidently the market for powder has fallen off, due to the fact that there is no active warfare going on in the world on a large scale, and so the poor crows must be used as an outlet for an unsalable product. Dr. Edward W. Nelson, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey, not only refused to endorse the crow-killing, but denounced it as being based upon "false information as to the nature of the crow." Massachusetts officials telegraphed the Deleware corporation protesting...
...convent.--In the first of the holy sisters are presented with a foundling, which their doctor adopts, and they agree to take care of. The second act occurs twenty years later. The foundling has grown to womanhood, and the sisters are preparing her trousseau, for she has fallen in love with Antonio, an architect, and the wedding is imminent. Antonio and his bride go away leaving the nuns, especially Sister Joanna of the Cross--who has acted as a mother to the girl--plunged in deepest gloom...