Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facilitate the recording by R.C.A. Victor, the audience was requested to refrain from applause between numbers. Restraint was broken at the close by over five minutes clapping, as Woodworth shook hands with Koussevitzky. Only one chair was overturned; only one book had fallen to the floor. The records will not be ready for sale for at least three months...
Soviet Editors scarcely knew where they stood on religion last week, printed such official facts as that the League of Militant Godless (i. e., atheists) has fallen in membership from 5,000,000 to 2,000,000; that the Commissariat of Education has just closed five big anti-religious museums which until a few weeks ago were one of the major tourist sights of the Soviet Union; and that the Komsomols or Young Communist Leagues have now abandoned their anti-religious propaganda among Russian youths. All this must gratify every Russian Orthodox, but it infinitely pains every Old Bolshevik. Since...
...prophetic cartoon of 1889 which fantastically foretold today's San Francisco-Oakland Bridge, the transport planes and air clippers which now roar in and out of the two cities. For readers of 1987, Manager Lindner had another prophetic sketch prepared. This showed the great Golden Gate Bridge fallen in neglected ruins, San Francisco's skyscrapers abandoned, the city housed in vast, uniform, flat-topped buildings; an "Orient Express" plane arriving at an airport on top of a slender, mile-high column while a "lunar local" rocket-ship takes off below; a teacher & class flying around under their...
...last week an American Airlines pilot about to take off from Newark Airport with a load of passengers in a Douglas DC-3, discovered in time's nick that his controls were jammed. Cutting his motors for an immediate investigation, he discovered that his radio microphone had fallen off its hook by the seat into the V-shaped well in the wall between the movable control column and the fixed structural parts of the cockpit. Grim-faced at his narrow escape from tragedy, the pilot told his employers about it. They at once passed the word to other lines...
...David's emergency calls took him behind the scenes in the local theatre, where a German dancer had fallen, broken her wrist. He fixed her up as well as he could, thought no more about it. But on one of his weekly visits to a neighboring town he saw her again. This time she had tried to commit suicide. When she lost her job Dr. David took care of her, finally brought her home as governess for his little boy, who was very sensitive. Leni, for that was her name, was a great success with the little...