Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hollow fashion from the Crimson quartet. For three-quarters of the mile distance the Harvard runners held their own with the southerners, but on the last lap, while running a nip-and-tuck race and making a strong bid for victory, O'Neil, the Crimson anchor man, tripped and fell. The fourth Maryland flier aped on to an easy...
...Count (nephew of the Hungarian Minister at Washington who married Gladys Vanderbilt) slipped while climbing, fell from a jutting rock and was instantly killed...
...wrists protruded from his sleeves bonily. His trousers stopped dejectedly far short of his shoes. Over his spectacles fell a strand of straw-colored hair. His Adam's apple gulped ominously within his amp'e collar. He was a grind, a poor boy, a social catastrophe? but he left his books and store-counter to win the big relay race for Ohio State University. Pennants waved; men cheered; girls screamed. A hero emerged from a "poor...
...Bubbles' won because Miss Cather had published her tale as a short novel. Sherwood Anderson received second prize ($250) for 'Death in the Woods.' And to me they offered third prize ($100) for 'Between Worlds.' I refused to give permission for the reprinting of my story. The committee then fell back on 'Command,' a piece published last April in Sea Stories (monthly) by one Richard Wetjen...
...starved their cats. Municipal officials starved cats in the village pounds ?and an army of ravenous felines was released upon Mousedom. To no avail. Krazy Kat himself (or herself)** could have been no more ineffectual. Dick Whittington's cat, who rid an African kingdom of rats at one fell swoop, might have prevailed, but not the cats of Kern County. Rocking with glee, the newsgatherers told stories about cowardly cats fleeing to cover, proud cats ignoring such easy prey, big-hearted cats adopting families of mice. The ever-colorful New York World carried a report...