Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disliked still more the prospect of being freed by Napoleon at the expense of his freeing their serfs. But neither of these obstacles ruffled Rasonski's cool-headed obsequiousness toward the old Count nor his heavy gallantry toward Dzjunka. Only one thing disturbed his calculations: he had really fallen in love with Dzjunka...
Real as it was to old Mr. Green, the A.F. of L.'s action seemed strangely unreal. The Mine Workers had already read themselves out, as even the ouster resolution noted. Nor was it explained why of all C.I.O. unions the ax had fallen on the Flat Glass Workers and the Smelters, both relatively unimportant. Logical union to go and the one expected to go was Sidney Hillman's big Amalgamated Clothing Workers. But whatever the strategy may have been one thing was sure: it was not in the interests of labor peace...
...booming 'twenties it was normal for 600 banks to fail per year. In 1930, after a year of depression the figure vaulted to 1,350. Last week the present depression had been going only six months. But in that time business generally had fallen as far as it did in the entire year after the 1929 market smash. Significant therefore was the year-end report made by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last week...
...miles south of them. In eight days they traveled five and a half miles. But the ice had moved beneath them: they were 25 miles north of where they started. Three months later a few of the survivors, some blind, some mad, one so badly frozen his feet had fallen off, landed on the coast of Siberia where the Lena River pours into the Arctic. Of a party of 14 men, including Commander George Washington De Long, only two came through alive. Nine, after incredible hardships, were almost within reach of help when they starved. Another group of eight...
Saturday she retaliated with a live kitten, which has fallen into the hands of Colonel Apted. The kitten is fated to lead a peaceful life as the new Yard cop cat, but still Thurston seeths with a vengeful spirit, for he is pondering upon an effective couner-attack...