Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese who seized the flag, tore it to shreds, and moved to attack Socony Hall. "My husband," said Mrs. Davis later, "shouted: 'Men, get your guns! Guard the women! Send up a rocket!"1 Soon U. S. and British shells began to whine over Socony Hall, Tribune, "we fell upon our knees and thanked...
...Long ago, before Gypsy Sr. was converted, before Gypsy Jr. was born, the father of Gypsy Sr. attended an evangelistic meeting, fell to the floor unconscious, leaped to his feet a few minutes later with a shout: "I am converted...
...high and low degree saw the sun burst through the clouds, do its belated best. Thirty-seven horses started the agonizing 4½-mile chase. Over stone fence, green hedge, wide ditch and stream, they charged. One by one, sweating, steaming animals with bloodshot eyes found themselves wanting; fell, pitching heartbroken men onto tough shoulderblades. Only seven horses came to the last hurdle, Bovril III, 100-to-1 shot leading, closely pressed by Keep Cool and ten-year-old favorite Sprig. At this point Sprig lent ear to able Jockey Leader, executed a series of super-equine lunges, crossed...
Died. William S. Cherry, African explorer, discoverer of three unknown types of natives; drowned off the Mexican coast. On the S. S. Manchuria, some valuable papers blew across the deck. Explorer Cherry gave chase; the ship listed; he fell overboard...
Last week the University of Virginia fell heir, by the will of Graham F. Blandy, Manhattan stockbroker, to $600,000 with which it was directed to inaugurate an agricultural school. This school, when finished, will represent one more marked advance in the university's progress, under President Edwin A. Alderman (elected 1904), from a small college serving a limited class to a large university meeting the needs of a commonwealth...