Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shout in stentorian indignation: "He it was, and not the poor but honest hero on whom he is trying to lay the blame, who took the missing papers from the lower drawer of the mahogany desk in the upper left hand corner of the stage just before the curtain fell on Act I, Scene...
Fortunately the idea is likely to remain a pipe dream of Republican campaign managers. President Harding has always been reluctant to talk about himself and now does not view with favor Mr. Davis' plan. Congress, which holds the purse strings, still has unpleasant memories of the criticisms which fell on Mr. Creel's Public Information Committee for alleged propagandist efforts. The Administration Publicity office would doubtless degenerate in a very short time into a propaganda bureau with the sole object of keeping the defending party in and the besieging party put. It probably would not even be successful, to that...
Through the morning the sun shone brightly, but just before the horses went to the barrier fog fell, and the mists blew fitfully across the course throughout the running. Sergeant Murphy, handled by Captain G. H. Bennett, an amateur rider, got away well and fencing boldly struggled for the lead with Shaun Spadah, Sir Malcolm McAlpine's winner of the race in 1921. Over half the field fell in the first round, and the American-owned gelding started for home in the van of the twelve remaining jumpers. Two fences from the finish Sergeant Murphy came up with a rush...
...State Constitution which prohibits " granting to any person, association, firm or corporation an exemption on real or personal property " by means of " a private or local bill." While his stand must have required an admirable degree of courage, there is considerable substance to the accepted opinion that he fell into error and there is an ample basis for expectation that the law will be sustained on appeal...
Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe '87: Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany, Volume 3. Biographies of the Harvard men who fell in the Great War between April 7 and August...