Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus popularly reviled Foreign Minister Nintchitch resigned. The long tottering cabinet of Premier Uzunovitch fell with him. All this occurred?in typical Balkan fashion?before the Italo-A1bania Treaty of Tirana had been registered with the League, as it soon will be, and in spite of vigorous Italian denials that it contains any military clauses whatever. A scalding teapot tempest brewed...
...before the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen. One of his few false moves was to keep the Cantonese waiting for weeks while a ceremonial coffin was being brought from Moscow for the dead Dr. Sun. When it eame, it was too tawdry for use, and Borodin's stock fell momentarily in Chinese eyes. But he has brought much beside an inadequate coffin to China-gold, guns, ammunition, though not so much as is popularly believed. As he sped toward Wuchang with Mrs. Sun a wild rumor was concocted: that this frail, and by Chinese reckoning, beautiful woman would...
...field of corn that had been under water for a long time. The grain had sprouted, turned to mash, fermented; greedily the hogs guffed and snuzzled. Soon a warm paradise bloomed in their brutish hides. They ran in circles, tottering. They knocked each other down, made love. Seven fell into a creek and drowned. Thirteen, eating too much of the alcoholic seed, perished in agony. Sitting safely on a fence, Farmer Glenn Beall watched a scene not unlike the one a Greek saw when amorous swine on an island suggested the story of Circe; or that which took place...
...second and less joyous climax comes a little later, at the end of a long lay's travel by camel in the icy gale of the desert plateau, when Jayne, Mr. Warner's companion "slid from his kneeling camel and fell fiat. He could not walk a step. I stretched him on the snow with his back to the blaze and took off his fur boots to find both feet frozen stiff," What this meant, in the midst of the howling desert, at that time of the year, with little food and less fuel and no medical attention is hard...
...Harvard squad with the brightest prospect in years ahead of it for this season neither exceeded nor fell below expectations in its first appearance. The passing was far below the standard to be looked for in mid-season and the long range shooting inaccurate. The play of three of last year's championship Freshman skaters, Tudor, Crosby, and Stanley gave the Crimson supporters added cause to hope for a winning sextet. Zarakov, a flashy wing of two years' experience, also played a fast game. He was third substitute in the first period, was sent in second in the following session...