Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soldier bonus, the idea of which was sidetracked by the House Ways and Means Committee in order to expedite the tax reduction, was again shunted back onto the main line. By a vote of 16 to 4, the Committee decided that a bonus bill would be reported and then fell to quarreling as to what form the bonus would take. The old form of bill with its alternative of insurance, vocational training, farm and home aid, etc., appeared to have been thrown into the discard. Insurance-probably paid up endowment insurance-will apparently be the main feature of the bill...
...Hungarian students at the University of Budapest fell in love with the same girl. One challenged the other to a duel...
...took inventory of his assets. He decided to diversify and strengthen his holdings by new purchases. He prepared for Spring "maneuvers." So he bought a shipload of French munitions. He tried to buy a few warehouses full of Italian arms which were encumbering the vicinity of Peking, but negotiations fell through so he sent to Holland and bought a big shipment of arms that was stranded there in 1918 after the War. Then he hired a Mexican ship,-for Mexico wasn't signatory to the arms embargo agreement. Now he sits at Mukden waiting for his ship to come...
Providence, R. I., March 14.--Three victories and two defeats fell to the lot of the University wrestling team in the semi-finals of the New England Intercollegiate Wrestling Championship tonight at Lyman Gymnasium, Brown University. Carl Stearns '26, Captain George Karelitz '24 and F. B. Hayne '26, who have been consistent winners all season, turned in victories over their opponents while F. B. Hill '26 and C. H. Bradford '26 were forced to concede decisions to heavier...
...less than that a candidate for entrance whose native tongue is English will not be admitted unless his work in English is passable. The question then arises whether the present generation of sub freshmen talk and write worse English than the one preceding, and whether that generation fell short in this respect of its senior. One thing is certain, at all events, and that is that the present crop of freshmen at Harvard and elsewhere are nothing much when it comes to talking and writing English. It is not entirely the fault of these unhappy youths that this should...