Word: falling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they line up in double ranks, facing inward. Down the alley of whips the delinquent must march, not too slowly, or a soldier who follows will bayonet him in the back, not too fast, or a second soldier who precedes the delinquent will jab him in the ribs. Whips fall in time with the brisk beating of a drum. Sonorously War Minister Julius Goembos read out to Parliament the preamble to his flogging bill: ". . . Whereas the penalty of imprisonment completely failed of effect in wartime, as the soldiers preferred a well-warmed prison to the discomforts of the trenches...
...Armstrong and his financiers on the 3½ inch steel cable he is having laid to hold his floating island to its anchors. Those anchors are to be huge round bobbins which will dig into red clay of the submerged plateau and hold the seadrome from drifting. By next fall and before Bermuda's 1930-31- tourist season begins Mr. Armstrong expects to have the Langley completed and anchored in place, ready to receive tourist planes and to entertain travelers on man's newest conquest of an element. As the operation of the Langley makes money, he will...
...these experts will fall the task of discovering why Prohibition agents are quick to shoot down liquor suspects on sight. Likewise they will delve in the susceptibility of dry officers to be bribed out of their enforcement duty...
...looking over the University's athletic equipment, however, there is one very obvious weak link, the Soldiers Field Locker Building. This fall the facilities have not been up to handling all the undergraduates who sought to use the building. It is hard to imagine a greater obstacle in the successful development of the athletics-for-all policy than insufficient facilities in such indispensable requisites as locker rooms, showers, etc. Dr. Richards and his assistants, the visiting teams, the coaches, not to mention all the minor sports and class athletic teams, would benefit from modern and enlarged quarters. We can hardly...
...what I do want to say, and say strongly is that I think these stories about Harvard and Princeton proselyting athletes are wrong. Why shouldn't a baseball player sell peanuts on Soldiers Field during the fall? Why should that place Harvard in the position of being accused of subsidizing athletes...