Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardling mile relay squad ran a tremendous race and might have won if Gerry Webb, the second Crimson runner, had not fallen and lost ground, forcing the Freshmen to settle for another third...
...Forge (Pa.) Military Academy, who until 1946 had a country (Bulgaria) to call him King Simeon II, settled down with Roommate Richard J. Sands for a session of rifle cleaning. Cadet Rylski remains youthfully sure that happier days will be here again: "Communists cannot rule forever. Despotisms have always fallen. Why should this one be an exception? I can wait, for I am young...
Tentative plans for ex-President Harry S. Truman to visit the University in the near future have fallen through, it was learned recently. At the invitation of the United Nations Council and the Young Democratic Club, Truman had agreed to stop here during a trip to Boston this month...
...often been depression. The best long-range measure of inflation is the wholesale price index, which has been recorded conscientiously by the Government since 1890 and projected back as far as 1749. The index shows that prices have generally risen in times of prosperity or of war, fallen in times of depression. During the severe depression of the early 1890s U.S. prices hit their lowest level in history...
...just won a popular revolution for old ideals-for democracy, justice and honest government-themselves picked up the arrogant tools of dictatorship. As its public urged them on, the Cuban rebel army shot more than 200 men, summarily convicted in drumhead courts, as torturers and mass murderers for the fallen Batista dictatorship. The constitution, a humanitarian document forbidding capital punishment, was overridden...