Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regional conservation bill (parceling out the U. S. among "seven TVAs"). Sponsored by Nebraska's George W. Norris, it was dropped when he fell...
...corner of the famous Bund which skirts the Whangpoo, and Nanking Road, heart of the section where Americans congregate, the sky fell fortnight ago when a Chinese air bomb intended for the Idumo fell, plunk!, into the Palace Hotel (No. 10 on the map). Another, a mile away, snuffed out 500 lives when it plunked into the Great World Amusement Palace, crammed with gibbering Chinese...
...into the murk down the hillside. There were many casualties, but the Rightists pressed forward, groping almost to the muzzles of the Asturians' rifles and machine guns. Hand grenades started bursting. Men were screaming. Bayonets were used as daggers. The struggle lasted for an hour. Then the Asturians fell back into...
...crop will depend largely on the export market. Hence that was the chief concern of Chicago's great apple meeting. As recently as 1930, 21,000,000 bu. of U. S. apples were exported, mostly to England. Later such tremendous trade barriers rose that exports fell to 6,000,000 last season. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a message outlining the 16 reciprocal trade treaties which concern apples. A blow to lope however was delivered by Fruit Specialist Fred A. Motz of the U. S. bureau of agricultural economics, who pointed out that good apples from...
Gradually her strength was ebbing, and for nine years Babe had not been off her stiff old legs, because she realized that if she lay down, she would never rise again. Last week, ambling from her cage into the yard, Babe lifted her foot, tripped on the doorsill, fell to rise no more...