Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subscriber Brown fell asleep in Council Bluffs, Iowa, while reading TIME. He has not stated what bored...
...Greenwich Village district of Manhattan has a typhoid epidemic. The 58th victim fell sick last week. All caught the disease indirectly from an old man, one Frederick Moersch, carpenter, who had been helping his widowed daughter run a Village ice cream parlor. He is a typhoid carrier, immune to the disease himself, infectious to others. The New York City health department captured him and segregated him on a pest island in East River. He may be kept there for life because he broke his promise to the health department never to work around food which other people might...
...investment trust with the co-operation and advice of British bankers. Among its directors is Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist; Artemus L. Gates, son-in-law of the late Henry Pomeroy Davison and vice president of the New York Trust Co. Banker Gates, as a husky War aviator fell within German lines, intrepidly turned his machine gun on his captors, was imprisoned, escaped, was recaptured...
...Revolutionary War to a smart finish, Americans thought he would make a good peacetime President, nor were they disappointed. Precisely similar was the reasoning of Chinese, last week, when they chose the first President of the new Chinese Nationalist Government (TIME, May 2, 1927). Naturally and inevitably their choice fell upon the Nationalist Revolution's doughty "Man of Victory," famed Marshal Chiang Kai-shek...
Early Seventeenth Century. Came the Great Frost: the new King celebrated his coronation with an ice carnival on the frozen Thames, and there Orlando fell passionately in love with a Muscovite Princess. His verse likened her to a pineapple, an emerald, a fox in the snow; and for weeks their bliss was the gossip of the icebound court. Then she jilted him, and he went into a trance...