Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than three terrible minutes the upheavals had ended. But weakened structures continued to collapse and fires broke out. One heroic youngster, a night watchman at the main power plant, realizing that fallen live wires would electrocute many, rushed into the tottering building, jerked off the switch just as the roof smashed down...
Everybody knows that it is very quiet after it snows. But last week in Nature, two inquisitive Britons from the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington told exactly how efficient a sound absorber snow is. They carried a carpet of newly fallen snow, four inches deep, into their laboratory, found it absorbed 90% and more of vibrations in the middle and high frequency ranges, far more than heavy velvet draperies...
...Well boys," he crowed, "we hit it right on the nose." Actually Parson Sieck had fallen short of the nose by some two seconds, and his last remark hit pious radio listeners right in the eardrums...
...Harvard undergraduate has fallen victim to the charms of La Hepburn, not Katherine but the movie star's younger sister, Marian. Marian's fiance is Ellsworth S. Grant '39 of West Hartford, Connecticut, and Eliot House. The engagement was announced Tuesday night...
...across their skate-blades, testing their sharpness and grinning evilly at the vision of the cleanly vivisected jugular vein of an enemy defenseman. Then the whistle blows again, and the "game" goes on. Nothing ever stops these 20th century executioners except the necessity of removing a corpse which has fallen so as to inconvenience play. If a man is obliterated out in front of the goalie's cage, the game is halted until the gurgling victim is transported to a far corner of the rink...