Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Matthes began his speech: " The Separatists are animated by hatred toward none, but only desire peace, security and tranquillity." Shots rang out, men dropped dead, women and children screamed, a panic followed; the security police fired a fusillade, the secessionists replied with guns and cudgels, men, women and children fell dead or wounded. The fight was characterized by "savage brutality, particularly on the part of the Rhineland Separatists." Order was finally restored by the appearance of French cavalry and tanks. Several hundred people were killed and injured...
...appointed professor at the University of Athens, but when the government of Venizelos fell, he resigned. the next year he returned to Cambridge as Instructor in the Classics and member of the Faculty. Subsequently he was appointed Assistant Professor at Yale, a position he held at the time of his death...
...mother country salutes with sorrow and pride her children, who fell for her, raising her once more into the divine atmosphere of glory...
...Company's huge gross earnings of $160,000,000 during the last year, they fell below the gross of $190,000,000 established the preceding year; profits also fell some $10,000,000 below those of last year. This decrease is mainly due to the reduction upon the profit obtained per car, which dropped from $90 a year ago to $43 this year. During the latest period, the concern produced 1,833,812 cars, trucks, tractors and Lincolns, compared with a total of 1,080,000 vehicles the preceding year...
Governor C. A. Templeton of Connecticut: "Tagging a runner between second and third base in our annual family baseball game, I fell, injuring both elbows and both knees. Six X-ray pictures showed that I sustained no serious hurt...