Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico. ". . . Because of ill-defined boundaries of the sparsely settled political subdivisions of the old Spanish colonial empire, the independent states of America carved out of it, fell heir to a large number of territorial disputes which, in many cases, were of an exceedingly delicate and difficult nature. It is a tribute . . . that most of these disputes have been settled by the orderly process of negotiation, mediation, and arbitration...
...until eleven years later, after he had given promise of success in this profession, did Thomas Hardy write his first novel, The Poor Man and The Lady. This fell into the hands of an intelligent publisher's reader, the later famed George Meredith, who returned it promptly because it lacked plot. Desperate Remedies desperately remedied this defect, but supplanted it with many others. Under the Greenwood Tree attracted more favorable notice, and in 1874 the Cornhill Magazine published anonymously Far from the Madding Crowd. Its enormous success was in part due to the fact that many painfully unobservant readers...
...been talking of that inexorable Law, that destiny which had removed at one fell swoop all of our tutors. The friendly handclasp, the eyes that searched our own, were gone. Should we ever be able to talk together again? And we spoke of getting a word across the Infinite, as much as anyone can speak of such a nutty idea...
...quintet defeated the Trinity basketball team by a score of 51 to 26 last night in Hemenway Gymnasium in a game that was marked by numerous substitutions and much roughness. Just before this game was played the Freshman team suffered its first defeat of the year when it fell at the small end of a 28 to 19 score in its contest with Cushing Academy in the Freshman Gymnasium...
...should be added that, as far as we can fell, the recent encyclical has not been issued "ex cathedra" and hence is not to be regarded as "infallible," which means that there is nothing to prevent the revision of its chief positions in the future. Moreover, just as in the years following 1864 leading Romanists assured the world that the Syllabus taken at its face value was misleading and that the pope did not really mean what the seems to say, so it may be that some further interpretation of the recent letter will appear which will give...