Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater than the estimate. Miscellaneous receipts ($643,000,000) included a number of items not foreseen or predictable-$34,000,000 from railroads, $15,000,000 from "Army costs" receipts, $6,400,000 from the sale of surplus Navy stores, etc. In addition, the expenditures fell about $4,500,000 below expectations. These items made the difference...
Again the continent shivered and stretched its right hip. Brick fell in the streets of Santa Barbara, buildings collapsed, hotels and banks were reported in ruins, the dam of one of the city's reservoirs burst, telegraphic and telephonic connections severed, several were killed...
...Baltimore, led by a detachment of police, behind which marched James J. Davis, U. S. Secretary of Labor, with the student band of Mooseheart behind them, 18,000 members of the Loyal Order of Moose, in fervent costumes, assembled for the grand parade when-Wumps, came the rain. It fell heavily. Heedless, the Moose began to march. The rain poured down their backs. They marched on. It wetted the women along the route; those who came to cheer remained to shiver; the Moosemen marched on. It soaked their hats, it trickled down their socks; a one-legged Moose from...
...Americans were eliminated in the singles until only Casey and Hennessey were left. Finally Casey fell before Rene La Coste, the 1924 French Davis Cup player. J. O. Anderson, the Australian veteran, was twice driven to exert himself; once was within a point of losing his match...
Because of the rain, the field (at Hurlingham) was mud, a pony slipped; because of the slip, Captain J. B. Dening of the British Army's polo team fell on his poll and suffered a slight concussion of the brain. No one, however, went so far as to suggest that it was because of this lamentable accident that the U. S. team won by 6 goals to 4 the second and deciding game of their series (TiME, June 29) against the British. The former was better mounted, more vigorous. Through the gray drizzle of the afternoon, ambassadors and noblemen...