Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expedition was many times delayed and hampered by violent snow storms, accompanied by dangerous winds. Snow fell almost continually during the ascent. Had it not been for the precaution of planting stakes along the trail the members of the expedition might well have experienced the death they faced on many occasions in the confusing maze of ice fields...
...When the War broke out, we radio engineers, all of us, at once fell to adapting radio to warfare. For my part, I returned to experiments of my boyhood with the short-wave range, seeking to devise means of secret communication. We evolved the 'direction finder' for spotting the enemy's sending stations and giving our own ships their bearings. I worked out a rudimentary (compared to now) system of 'narrow-casting,' using skeleton parabolic mirrors to converge my waves in a beam, thus saving generative power and preventing messages from being diffused 'broadcast...
...Paris Ivan Manghikian married. One night last week he fell a-brooding. At last he unpacked his heavy executioner's sword, sev ered his wife's neck with one deft blow while she slept. Arrested, Ex-Executioner Manghikian said: "There are 365 days in the year, but I had cut off only 364 heads. Now at last the number is complete...
After six months of Prohibition, "Bevo," sales fell off. The North, used to good beer, disliked "Bevo." In the South it continues popular. Mr. Busch sat down to figure out just what he could do. His relatives depended upon him for income, employes for work, customers for drinks. Basically, he decided, he was a converter of grain. Grain was the unique feature of his business. The problem was: What could his factories, equipment and men make out of grain? They could and do make "Bevo," near beer, ginger ale, root beer, malt extracts, food tonics, grape drinks, starch, glucose, syrups...
...None the less, the two big seaplanes vanished over the southern horizon seven minutes apart, droning for Cape Hatteras at a smart 80 knots or so. The destroyer Overton, the minesweeper Sandpiper and cruiser Saukee, strung down the Atlantic and stationed off Cuba, turned on their searchlights as dusk fell, tilted their beams at agreed angles into the drizzly night. The cruisers Raleigh and Cincinnati and the minesweeper Swan, stationed at intervals in the Caribbean, stood by to scan the morning horizon. The Navy's latest and perhaps greatest flight was scheduled to take about 24 hours...