Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point was that in 1922 the purchasing power of farm products fell from 205 to 116 points. All other products fell simultaneously from 241 to 167 points. "So," explained Mr. Jardine, "when we hit the bottom other industries stood at 167 points and agriculture stood at 116. ... At this time, after passing through three or four of the very worst years American agriculture ever has known, we have come back from the low point of 116 in 1922 to 147 in 1925, whereas nonagricultural products have dropped from...
...21st Street, still muttering her lament. Occasionally a barrel stave or water-logged tomato was carried to her feet by the surf. In the lift of one wave she thought she saw her son, lying on his side with arms beseeching; but the vision passed as the wave fell in a dull smother. The next wave was empty. Mrs. Ravmitzky watched its cruel curve and pounding explosion, when, in the hissing sheet of dirty foam that moved toward her, she saw her son again, face down this time, legs askew, as if he were sleeping. The foam sucked back...
Bananas In Perth Amboy, N. J., Michael Patonick, 11, unfastidious son of a local junk dealer, found 15 unripe bananas in a city dump, ate all of them, fell over unconscious...
Pipe In Stewart Landing, B. C., one Teeta-Wakee, 107-year old squaw, was accosted by a peddler. Rolling her rheumy eyes in coy alarm, she listened while the man attempted to persuade her that she needed a new pipe. When he fell silent she produced from her bosom a wooden object, notched, smoke-blackened, evil, stuffed it with tobacco, applied a match, puffed miasma into the peddler's face. She had smoked this pipe, she declared, for 65 years...
Mary Garden, prima donna of the Chicago Civic Opera: "As I lay naked on pillows in my rowboat one morning last week, out on the Mediterranean from my villa at Antibes, France-a daily practice with me, to enjoy the sun's curative rays-i fell asleep, a wide straw hat on my head, my legs dangling overboard into the water. I awoke, startled by furtive splashing near my lonely boat. To my horror, two huge sharks were circling about, churning the water, swirling greedily. I drew in my legs. I recalled that a bather near Genoa had been...