Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese movement, known as Taoism was to Confucianism about what Romanticism is to Classicism. The Taoist claimed that the Chinese fell from the simple life--the ideal--into artificiality about the twenty-seventh century B.C. Man must now return to that idylic state, and few writers have ever set forth more entertainingly what may be called the Bohemian outlook upon life than Chuang...
Besides its upset by the University, the Green sextet has dropped a 4 to 2 contest to Williams, whom it had previously toppled on three occasions, and played a three-period overtime 1 to 1 deadlock with Yale, which fell before Harvard last Saturday. Beyond this, Dartmouth boasts a 4 to 3 victory over Yale in two overtime periods, two triumphs over Princeton, and four conquests of other outfits...
...obtained a conviction, but Harpers won their appeal in New York's highest court, which weakened Comstockian Section 1141 by holding that questionable art or literature is guiltless unless it "tends to excite lustful or lecherous desire." Tendencies are such vague things that Mr. Sumner's record fell off from 150 convictions...
...numerous Macfadden daughters are buxom as can be and have never been ashamed to pose as their father's prize exhibits. Nevertheless, it was inevitable that this apostle of the corporeal should find how well the U. S. form repays its exploiters. Bernarr Macfadden got into publishing and fell among shrewd businessmen...
Died. Dr. George Byron Gordon, 57, able archaeologist, director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum; at Philadelphia, of a fractured skull. After a dinner of the Wilderness Club, where Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt told of their recent Asiatic explorations, Dr. Gordon started upstairs to get his coat, fell backward, cracked his skull on the marble stairs. It is believed he was stricken with paralysis...