Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mopping up took place a year ago, another minor one last winter. Last week 200 of the constabulary under two white officers undertook the destruction of the Moro strongholds in the hills of Mindanao. There were three days of continuous fighting and five forts fell. Of the Moros 50 were killed; of the constabulary five were killed and 17 wounded...
...Scroll and Key; of John C. Lord of Tarrytown, N. Y., first man for Wolf's Head; and of Van Buren Taliaferro of Manhattan, first for Elihu Club. The even greater honors of being 15th and last man "tapped" for the four societies (in the order named) fell respectively to Philip W. Bunnell of Scranton, Pa., Hannibal Hamlin of Brooklyn, James G. Butler of Hartford, Conn., and George F. Scherer* of Washington, D. C. John J. Pierson of Manhattan had the hardihood to refuse the accolades of Wolf's Head and Elihu Club, preferring to await election...
...fare earthward on his last assignment. But if a personage dies at an awkward hour, if the announcement reaches the office just as the paper is going to press or the editor to the races, the obituary in the first edition is apt to be brief. And so it fell out in the death of Thomas Mott Osborne, famed warden of Sing Sing, whose demise the Boston Herald covered last week. The notice- a two-inch filler on the front page -was headlined simply...
...eagle reeled crazily in the air, sideslipped, almost dropped into the foam. The cook sought to lure it to alight and rest by spreading meat scraps upon the stern. The eagle soared once more by great effort, distanced the ship for an instant, suddenly appeared to faint in midair, fell thump upon the deck...
...What bones were broken when Mrs. A. A. Barron fell from the 10-story window...