Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland, as a Federal conciliator tried to end the busmen's holiday, nine of Greyhound Corp.'s affiliated companies filed one of the most remarkable suits in the history of U. S. labor. They asked $6,300,000 damages from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, President Alexander Fell Whitney and 19 other Brothers on the ground that the strike was called, not to improve wages and working conditions of bus drivers, but in behalf of railroad passenger traffic. The trainmen for years, it was argued, have tried "to limit development of highway passenger transportation." It seemed quite obvious...
...Russia is, according to the Minister of the Interior, "a despicable compromise with the principles of The Revolution." Himself no compromiser, Bachelor Dormoy once had half his great beard torn off in a political argument. Last week as Minister of the Interior and as a militant Marxist there fell to Marx Dormoy a delicate task. He must explain before the bar of French public opinion the meaning of large quantities of small arms and munitions seized by the police recently in various parts of the Republic (TIME, Nov. 29), and he must not seem to be simply a Left politician...
Nuclear Capture. The atom consists of a tough, massive nucleus with one or more electrons spinning around it. For long years physicists assumed that an outside electron never fell into its own nucleus. At Ohio State University, Dr. Marion Llewellyn Pool bombarded silver with various projectiles, made it artificially radioactive. Thirty-five times more gamma rays than electrons spurted out of the radioactive silver. The only way Dr. Pool could explain this abnormally high ratio was by assuming that the nucleus had captured one of its own outside electrons...
...contest with a 1-0 lead until the last two innings, Adams fell by the way-side as the Rabbits brought out the heavy artillery, aided by numerous Gold Coast infield miscues. Adams, however, kept threatening but could never quite get across the required runs...
...could draw likenesses of living people well, by sketching the face of a man whom he caught in the act of robbing his father's pear orchard, Tom at fourteen was sent off to London to study painting. In four years he was supporting himself. At twenty he fell in love with Margaret Burr, a young lady of confused origin who possessed many charms, including an annuity of $1000. After painting her portrait, he married her and settled in Ipswich...