Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinosaur egg, unless the buyer be a Museum, seems in worse case even than the collector of old books--or certain old books. There are of course old books which have in their content more or less value for the intellect. And there are old books which fell like lead upon their ago and generation and which by their bindings and beautiful print and wooden illustrations appeal only to the eye. But an object d'art practically the only value of which lies in its use as a test of human muscle must fall in the lowest plane...
...received a good deal of his education in Germany and at the beginning of the War he fell into ill-odor on account of his pro-German sentiments. Not long ago he said: "The Germans are a great people, a tenacious, an industrious and indestructible people. I may claim to know them well. In England I am generally considered pro-German-and rightly so. My feelings toward Germany never have altered, and I never have concealed them. That is why I still am confident in her future. The Germans certainly are passing through a difficult period, but we in England...
...History of Tangier is briefly: Fell into the hands of the Portuguese in 1662; came under British flag as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza when she married King Charles II in 1662; in 1684 British abandoned it to the Moors on account of the expense it involved; in 1905 Kaiser Wilhelm II paid a visit to the port of Tangier on board the Imperial Yacht Hohensollern, remained six hours and said enough to provoke an international crisis; 1906 Conference of Algeciras settled the whole Moroccan question and placed Tangier under temporary international control; 1911 Germany sent...
...made by the U. S. Department of Agriculture placed the current crop at 10,081,000 bales. This figure, although 167,000 bales un der the Government estimate of Nov. 2, was still larger than some of the trade had anticipated, and in consequence cotton prices at first fell off somewhat on the N. Y. Cotton Ex change, but only to rise still higher when the full significance of the figures was realized. The bales with which the estimate deals weigh 500 pounds, and thus the crop should amount to 4,821,333,000 pounds. At the average farm price...
...Paris, some weeks ago, Madame Silvain, famed tragedienne, was acting in a Greek drama, with the sword of Damocles suspended not by a hair but by a cord over her head. Malicious colleagues cut the cord. The sword fell-so did Mme. Silvain's left ear. Last week she was awarded $2,000 damages...