Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale staged an impromptu debate in Spanish later on with the excuse that they had not known that Porto Rico University was desirous of debating bilingually. As it was, the honor of taking part in the first intercollegiate debate to be held in a foreign tongue fell to New York University. The latter team was defeated but it proved concisely that N. Y. U. had students who were not afraid to face a foreign audience and debate and refute in a foreign tongue. Other colleges were fearful of making themselves appear ridiculous so they declined Porto Rico's invitation...
...League's choice fell, by a safe majority, upon another distinguished U. S. citizen whose whiskers are even whiter and slightly more luxuriant than John Bassett Moore's. Tabulation...
...Cabinet of Prime Minister Andrei Liapchev fell, last week, for the usual reason: trouble with the belligerent Macedonian Minority...
...days later His Majesty Tsar Boris called upon M. Liapchev to form another cabinet, for the usual reason: after other statesmen have had their try at assembling a Government, they are usually willing to compromise again on Liapchev. M. Liapchev duly formed another cabinet, but it, too, fell...
...awkward. She waited for him to come close. And her eyes widened as the ill forecast of his roundabout phrases became intelligible. Her brother, the great, the famed, the honorable, the revered Dr. Hideyo Noguchi was dead. She put her hands to her face and cried. Her spade fell over into the clods...