Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baseball squad ready to take part in practice contests, beginning next week. The pitching staff has been rapidly rounding into shape, and yesterday for the first time this season the pitchers began to curve the ball. As a result the batting, which has been hard and continuous to date, fell...
...revels in smoldering oratory, Candidate Reed stuck close to his stock speech on G. O. P. "boodlers" and misdeeds, seasoned with a few peppercorns for Tammany Hall. At Dallas, he specially flayed Secretary Mellon. At Tulsa, his special text was Oil, his chief target the Tariff. At Topeka he fell upon President Coolidge and snarled: "Without hesitation I declare that the stratum of the Republican party which has for the past eight years controlled the government is the most corrupt, the most venal and the most vicious body of men by which this nation has ever been afflicted."* At Denver...
...Pennsylvania under the Johnson resolution (TIME, Feb. 27)-Idaho's English-born Gooding, Montana's long-nosed Wheeler, chunky Wagner of New York (born in Germany) and Oklahoma's quiet little Pine. Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island was supposed to have been with them but he fell...
...close of the Civil War, Farmer Hiram was a failure. He loved to raise apples. But his apples rotted. His farm went to ruin and unrepair. The harness fell apart. Inventor Everest, always of a studious, enquiring drift of mind, tried some of Mr. John. D. Rockefeller's newfangled Pennsylvania fluid called petroleum on the harness. It softened, unstiffened. Manufacturer Everest built a small still near his barn, made harness dressing, sold it, prospered a little, but was utterly ruined by a patent suit establishing that somebody else had previously made harness dressing in the same kind of still...
...lost Rosalind; and all that remained was a great emptiness. She could indeed have filled it with the traditional affairs of her mother-in-law the duchess-soup kitchens, canons, Agatha Bazaar-but much as she loved tradition, she was too modern for that kind of thing. So she fell miserably in love with her husband, although all he had asked, and still asked, of her was that she bear him companionship-and an heir. This...