Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...determined Crimson rally in the closing innings of the return game with Georgetown. Tuesday afternoon, fell one run short of evening the count in the ninth frame and of giving the Harvard team a chance to win in the extra innings. The heavy-hitting Washingtonians nosed out a 9 to 8 victory. GEORGETOWN a.b. r. h. p.o. a. e. Smith, 2b. 2 1 0 2 2 2 McCarthy, c.f. 4 1 0 0 0 0 Dunn, s.s 5 0 1 2 3 0 O'Neil, 3b. 3 2 2 0 2 0 Graham...
...Parliament extended a unanimous, rising vote of welcome to the son of Lord Rothermere. Flags and bunting fluttered. The Mayor of Budapest came in stately regalia with symbolic gifts of bread and salt. A pageant of three hours' duration trooped past. Justinian Cardinal Szeredy blessed. And, as evening fell, weary Esmond Harmsworth was motored across the Danube and up a steep winding street which leads to the huge, once royal, palace of Archduke Friedrich and Archduchess Isabella. There, at the table of two Habsburgs whom royalist Hungarians still acclaim as royal, was served a banquet worthy of the days...
...usual a heavy rain fell at breakfast time and cleared off at lunch. In long sheds filled with betting machines men and women stood in line to put their money on the mud-horses-Distraction, Bonivan, Bobashela, Toro. Some liked outsiders-Petee Wrack at 20 to 1, Rumplestiltskin, Sun Beau. Some liked the English colt, Strolling Player. Many thought that Misstep was just as good as Reigh Count and maybe better. Finally when the 22 starters paraded to the barrier, and were sent off, some people yelled, some wept, and some turned pale. "Misstep!" they shouted. "Reigh Count...
...reading P. G. Wodehouse's humorous story, Jeeves Carries On. I was so absorbed that I did not look to see what I was doing and consequently did not realize that I was putting both feet into one pajama leg. A moment later I stood up, overbalanced, fell to the ground and dislocated my shoulder...
...first ballot last night found the votes scattered among 26 men. Smith and Baker led with 162 and 126 votes respectively, but these totals fell short of the number necessary for nomination. In the second ballot, the field narrowed to eight, with Smith receiving 356 and Baker...