Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years immigration outweighed by far the natural increase of the population. It does so no longer. Despite a birth rate which has fallen irregularly since Depression's onset in 1931, U. S. births are this year estimated to exceed deaths by 916,000-, while immigration exceeded emigration by only...
...pictures a Rome badly decayed, ignoble Romans unable to understand what is happening. Rome has fallen but the Romans cannot believe it. The barbarians are running the world, but the Romans do not know it, dare not face it, cannot believe that for once they are just muddling along instead of muddling through...
...close to death Byrd came when struck down by carbon monoxide, is shown by the point that if he had fallen on the table where he was sitting instead of on the floor, the cool clean air would never have reached his poisoned lungs. Then came his fight with fumes and cold. Cold of eighty below zero which he must endure or else run the risk of the deadly smoke from the stove. Yet he never told Little America of his plight for fear they might lose their lives trying to save him during the winter storms...
...years ago property owners got an amendment to the State Constitution lowering the real-estate tax ceiling to ten mills. Since then the National Association of Manufacturers and other industrial interests have defeated attempts to get other revenues through higher income taxes. Meanwhile the State school aid fund has fallen $17,000,000 behind, left localities in the lurch. Only solution is special local tax levies by cities. One after another, all large Ohio cities except Dayton voted such levies, in some cases, notably in Cincinnati and Springfield, after schools closed...
...young German revolutionary while the police were patrolling his house, Danton's Death has somehow struck the fancy of modern revolutionaries in the theatre, was produced in German in Manhattan by Max Reinhardt in 1927. It reveals the "moderate" Danton (Martin Gabel), weary of bloodshed, broken in purpose, fallen in power, propelled toward the guillotine through the fanatical ardor of Robespierre (Vladimir Sokoloff), the Incorruptible. After the knife has fallen, Robespierre's man Friday, Saint-Just (Orson Welles), defends the rigors of revolution in a speech of flame...