Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miller '27 entered. Haggerty had already won the mile against fast competition, and found the pace of the half-mile too fast, while Captain Paulsen of Yale ran wild for a win over Miller in the furlong. These events and the low hurdles decided the meet, which fell to Yale...
...Shenandoah Valley, where snow fell last fortnight, was bright last week with drifts of apple blossoms. Governor Harry Flood Byrd, himself a big cider, applesauce and vinegar producer, flew by blimp from Richmond to Winchester to crown the queen of the valley's blossom festival, Miss Mary Wise Boxley of Roanoke. It was a lyric occasion. Visitors waxed ecstatic over the scenery, the verdure, the marching schoolchildren. Newsgatherers tasted real Virginia applejack. None had a more gladsome time than his suave and swarthy excellency, Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., who, with Mme. Samy, had been...
...Professor Ward. When Dr. Hann died, the study had to be continued by someone else, for climatology needs a constant flow of new data to keep it abreast of the times. Professor Koppen took up the work in Europe, while the task of preparing the chapters of North America fell to the lot of Professor Ward and his associate, Professor Brooks of Clark University...
...Committee's suite, where he sat chatting with a friend about the ecent Illinois primary in which he had been nominated for a 13th consecutive term in the House. A few minutes later, the cloakroom stirred with a grave excitement. Debate on the floor dwindled and the House fell silent. Representative Williams of Illinois entered and announced that Martin Barnaby Madden had died, suddenly, of heart disease. Speaker Longworth appointed a funeral committee of 27 members and the House quietly adjourned...
...started the 175-yard dash at Philadelphia, Charles Paddock jumped away from the line while the nearest spectators leaned over the brick wall of the grandstand to watch him. Badly made and softened by dampness, the wall broke and onto the track tumbled spectators and debris. One old man fell square into the path of Paddock who jumped over him and then swerved to avoid debris, pounded on to cross the finish line in 17 2/5 sec., a world's record...