Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fell in Poland...
Jane Addams, grey-haired Chicago settlement worker, walking across the dining room of Hull House, slipped, fell, broke her wrist...
Chairs in Harvard dormitories fell over. Boston citizens were alarmed. Cape Cod sea captains left their pinochle, when the severest earthquake the east had felt for many years jarred seismographs from Halifax to Manhattan. Most noticeable in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, the brief temblor was not felt in Manhattan, everywhere did little damage...
...find the play very interesting," said His Majesty as the second act curtain fell on Subaltern Raleigh sobbing hysterically on his bunk, "and I am looking forward to seeing what happens in the next...
...years ago collectors of early American glass, walking sticks, coffee strainers and teething rings fell upon the Currier & Ives prints. They began to boost their value as records of an artless age, some even insisting upon their intrinsic value as works of art. Prices mounted until now a "good" Currier & Ives print is worth about as much as a Chevrolet and rare ones can be sold to lift mortgages from old farmhouses...