Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buying power of the dollar over this period. In "current dollars"-that is, money at its present purchasing power-the average income in this country in 1909 was $791; in 1913 it had increased to $864; from here it shot up to $1851 in 1920, and the next year fell back...
...infrequent and unobtrusive. But Robert Tyre Jones Jr. they remembered well indeed, the chubby Buster Brown of 17 from Atlanta, Ga., who qualified so brilliantly in the amateur championship of 1919 at Oakmont and blazed through his matches to the very final. Two former champions had sickened at that fell onslaught, tall Bob Gardner of Chicago and seasoned Walter Fownes of the home club, and only with difficulty did ponderous Dave Herron at last fix a damper on the ardent cherub, who swore and flung his clubs when a crashing drive soared astray or a tricky pitch was topped...
...about golf listened last week while the Western Open Golf championship was being discussed in the soda fountains of their country clubs. Their eyes bulged with impatience, but they listened, for they wanted their own dicta to be final. When the others, at length, perceived their plight and fell silent, these informed ones wiped their mouths with the backs of their hands. Out of the fullness of their knowledge, in voices thickened by many draughts of Seltzer-water and orange juice, they spoke. "That's all right," they said, "but let me tell you something-listen, there...
According to the U. S. Bureau of Mines, stocks of gasoline in this country fell only 22,000,000 gallons during last June, and at the end of that month stood at about 1,700,000,000-the high record for all time. In June, 1923, stocks fell 65,000,000 gallons, and in June, 1924, about 51,000,000 gallons. This year the California producers, heavily loaded still with stocks of crude oil, have been freely refining it and sending it East via the Panama Canal. Thus a price-cutting war has been precipitated all over the country...
...attack with a more fatal cunning. Things would go badly with Quixote had he survived to tilt with Greb; they went equally badly with one Patrick Walsh of Kansas City who opposed him last week in Atlantic City, for 41/2 minutes. Bewildered and bruised by many Sailings, Walsh fell into a swoon while the referee counted...