Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...venture to ask your views on this matter because at the last election of a Fellow--one of the seven who control Harvard's destinies--the choice fell for the first time upon a Roman Catholic. When this official dies it may be urged that a precedent has been created and that as his successor a man of the same faith should be appointed. The practice would be recommended upon grounds of liberalism...
Seven years ago* the Kerensky Provisional Government fell and the Bolsheviki seized power on the crest of a wave of slaughter...
...more than 500 doses, enough, it was thought, to meet the present emergency. Four more deaths occurred, bringing the total to 30. Of these new fatalities, two were men who contracted the distemper while working to subdue it: Father Brualla, pastor of the Nuestra Senora la Reina mission, who fell a victim when administering last sacraments to the dying; Emmet McLaughlin, ambulance driver. As the week ended, order was restored in the district; the Red Cross flag flew over the schoolhouse; the curse was abating...
...start Macauley Smith of Yale took the lead, closely followed by Tibbetts. The entire Princeton squad followed these two for the first half mile, but gradually, with the exception of Gallagher, fell into the ruck. At the mile-and-a-half mark six of the University, apparently in command of the situation, were grouped a hundred yards behind Tibbetts and the fleeting Smith. From that point Briggs, Captain Tracy of Yale, and Gallagher of Princeton pulled ahead and widened their advantage with each succeeding mile...
...pass directly over the center of the line was diagnosed by three Tigers and they rushed toward Pond, who was to receive it. He was knocked over by their onslaught just as the pigskin came within reach, but by an almost superhuman effort he lurched forward as he fell and grabbed the ball from the midst of his opponents...