Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refused the post of Secretary of the Navy when Edwin Denby resigned (TIME, March 24, 1924.) Judge Kenyon is often mentioned as potential material for a future Supreme Court appointment. +The day after Judge Kenyon's decision, the common stock of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. fell to a new low for the year (18%). Meanwhile, statisticians busied themselves, announced that the oil yields from Teapot Dome had been disappointing after...
...Sherwood Eddy's mission to Russia of which I was a member was filled full of bunk!" Eager newsgatherers scribbled this statement as it fell from the lips of one William Rosenwald, son of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Chairman Julius Rosenwald...
While the Harvard Crimson passed the matter off with flippancy to hide its real concern, others fell to figuring out who the pamphleteer might be. It seemed obvious that his name did not matter, but that (by internal evidence) he was 1) a socially unsuccessful classmate of Mr. Whitney's; 2) someone with a grudge, albeit a gay one, for the Harvard history department; 3) an intimate of the secretaries and other underlings of Harvard officials; 4) a clever Jew with a nose for the sensational...
...tasting defeat on Saturday, several of the University's future opponents spent rather drab afternoons. Yale, in conquering Georgia by 19 to 0, showed some glaring weaknesses, while Princeton was lucky to tie Washington and Lee 7 to 7. William and Mary, who visit the Stadium this week, fell before a powerful Syracuse eleven...
...Harvard's 25-yard line. A pretty pass, Gary to Avery, brought the pigskin to the Crimson's five-yard line. An off-side penalty set Andover back five yards at this point, but on the next play Avery took another nice pass, this time from Wheeler, and fell across the Harvard yearling's line. The attempt to kick the goal was blocked...