Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seiyuhonto Party and the Seiyukai Party were formerly united under the latter name. The death of Takashi Kara, who fell by the hand of an assassin in 1921, deprived the Seiyukai (Constitutional Society) of its leader, and the Party eventually split owing to internal discord, one part taking the name of Seiyuhonto, meaning "original Constitutional Party...
...nine from Dean Academy will try to add the University Second team to its string of victims at 4 o'clock this afternoon on the Second team diamond. The Dean outfit has shown read strength all season and has a distinct edge over the Crimson in comparative scores. Wentworth fell before both teams, the Seconds 7 to 3 and Dean...
...record of carrying some 16,000,000,000 persons in 1923. At first the new "electric railways" often proved very profitable and several of America's large private fortunes resulted from them. During the War and until very recently, however, the industry fell upon evil days. Operating costs were doubled or tripled, fares advanced little or not at all, competition with jitneys arose, and about a sixth of the industry went into the hands of receivers. Both track and equipment were sold for junk...
...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Quentin Romero, 196 pound pugilistic champ of Chile, fell before the bruising, battering attack of Floyd Johnson, 199 pound lowan. Romero, his face a bloody smear, fell in the seventh round, .lay prone while the timer tailed off: ten seconds. Whether he was really "out" or whether he could not understand the Anglo-Saxon numerals as shouted by the referee are questions which were afterwards debated...
...first prize. It was a stroke of inspiration that brought to his mind "LIBERTY-A Weekly Periodical for Everyone." He submitted 3,016 other suggestions but none of them were so inspired. The suggestions of Queen Marie of Rumania, Admiral Sims, Billy Sunday, Anton Lang, Harry Pratt Judson, also fell short of this inspiration...