Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theresa Schwarz, village belle; in Sotine, Jugoslavia. There were 2,750 invited and uninvited guests who consumed, during nine days and nights of celebration, six cows, 16 calves, 600 chickens, 300 turkeys, 20,000 quarts of beer, 10,000 quarts of wine, 200 quarts of plum whiskey, then they fell into haystacks, slept two days and two nights...
Years later the Cesarevitch actually was born, a sickly child, victim of an hereditary disease in Alexandra's family. Again the harassed Empress resorted to religion, and Rasputin, notorious mendicant, promised a cure. In gratitude, Alexandra fell completely under the spell of this man-she was his dupe, and he in turn the dupe of countless office-seekers, climbers, charlatans...
...first quarter was marked by fumbles and miss-plays on the part of both teams. The Crimson quickly fell into its stride beginning with the second quarter, and continued on the offensive throughout the remainder of the contest...
...humanity, happened to come before Schieffenzahn (said to be Ludendorff), engrossed as he was with annexation, colonization, Germanization, of the whole new border territory. In wholesale efficiency as to forestry, mineral resources, new currency, savings-banks, travelling incinerators, German bookshops, and paper factories for newspapers, insignificant Grischa fell under the category of discipline necessary to state maintenance. In vain did old von Lychow, beloved of his men, argue that it is justice preserves the state: "I know that justice and faith in God have been the pillars of Prussia, and I will not look on while her rulers...
Speculator Smith had committed the imprudence of buying at the top of a tremendous bull market which last week came to an end. In the last three days of trading the market value of listed securities fell off $6,000,000,000. The average of 100 representative stocks (compiled by the New York Times), fell off 15.61 points. In the last 10 minutes of the week's trading, Radio broke 20 points, in the last three days market valuation of radio stock went from...