Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This time the fallen financier was taken to the Criminal Courts Building. While photographers ran ahead of the poker-faced broker, snapping his long, elegantly dressed frame and the little Porcellian pig glistening at his watch chain, several hundred idlers trailed in his wake. "Who is it?" cried a woman. "It's Whitney!" screamed a group of giggling schoolchildren...
...Mighty Fallen. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, supplied U. S. newsorgans with the full 9,000-word indictment against the 21 prisoners. If cabled from Moscow at press rates this would have cost $1,000. It is what the Soviet Government wants to have believed, amounts to this...
Another Johnson hope is lightweight Harvey Ross who has fallen victim to blind grappler Allman of Penn and undefeated 118-pounder Mallon of Yale. Because of his rapid improvement and his records against Penn State and Princeton, observers are counting on him to advance to the final round on Saturday...
...when he died, have done some drilling themselves and have leased the claim at times to various other groups, but all attempts to exploit the crater's treasure have failed. Mr. Barringer first drilled in the centre, believing that because the crater was round the body must have fallen vertically. When he performed the highly ingenious experiment of firing bullets and shotgun charges into clay, however, he saw that a round crater was formed even when the projectiles entered at a considerable angle. Close study of the Meteor Crater strata made it seem that the meteorite had come...
...Last spring, when the commodity price level (Bureau of Labor Statistics) was still only 88% of the 1926 norm. President Roosevelt announced that commodity prices in general and steel and copper prices in particular were too high. His remarks precipitated a worldwide slump in commodity prices, which have fallen almost steadily since, were last week back to 80% of the 1926 norm.* Last week Franklin Roosevelt once more delivered himself on commodity prices...