Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choice of the officials of the meet has fallen on New York not because it is the largest city in the country, but principally because it is central for the competing colleges. A games at the score sheet of last Saturday's meet will reveal how many entrants come from the New York district or farther south. To ask the hundreds of athletes from distant colleges to make the journey to Boston would be an imposition on coaches and teams. Harvard and Boston have become famous for their athletic hospitality; they must be careful that hospitality does not become greed...
...seeking to express our grief over brave comrades fallen by our side in battle. . . . This tragic toll exacted by the Grim Reaper may awaken the American people to a new understanding. . . . We loved these fallen comrades of ours. . . . Vaile, called from the lofty outlook of his beloved mountains to the infinite horizons of eternity. . . . King, efficient attorney of Galesburg. . . . Oldfield, a man four square. . . . Butler, elder statesman, delicate whimsical humor. . . . Frothingham, gentleman of the old school...
...wives of all the brothers Bott, Ernest's Milly was the only soft, plump, docile one. The other brothers pondered their wives' angles and acerbities, secretly envied Ernest. When he died leaving his fortune to the "Home for Fallen Women" and adding a codicil, "My wife will know why," the Bott brothers were incredulous, their wives smugly pleased...
...established piano factories nearly all are running part time, with thousands of skilled workmen laid off or reduced to making radios. Four years ago the British Isles were buying 22,000 German pianos annually. With the enactment of the McKenna tariff that figure has fallen to a mere 1500 in 1928. Similar tariff enactments by other countries have cut German piano exports from...
...half dozen pages worth of "human interest" in one of our oldest and most tradition-bound colleges. In proving the central point of his article: "that Harvard men suffer from a painful tradition that they must appear to be indifferent when they are not," he has as usual fallen far short of success. But once again he has been moderately successful in being amusing. That the Crimson has taken Mr. Roberts' penny shocker seriously only adds to the entertainment of the general public. Cornell Daily...