Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock the Department's newest and shiniest ladder truck was blocking half of Quincy Street behind the Fire House, and a shower of spray fell from the hose at the top of the raised ladder...
...Archbishop Martínez began to sermonize. Just as the primate, whose cheerful grin for photographers belies his sober preoccupation with canon law and theology, reached the point where he promised "to comply with the desires of the Catholic people of Mexico," the floor directly in front of him fell in. With a terrible snapping and crackling, the ancient planks parted and 70 people dropped 18 feet into the 364- year-old crypt below. While brown-faced Boy Scouts scurried after the injured, helped the unharmed scramble from the pit and calmed the other worshipers in the hot Cathedral, Archbishop...
...Cinemactor Lee Tracy's yacht Adore fell his 72-year-old mother into Santa Monica harbor, whence she was rescued by her son who dived in fully clothed. Treated for shock and exposure, Mrs. Tracy was removed to her Beverly Hills apartment, where three days later the gas heater caught fire, burned up $250 worth of her clothing...
...Bureau of Mines estimated that if ore continued to move out of the Lake Superior region at the rate of 65,204,600 tons a year, all the high-grade ore in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan would be exhausted in about 37 years. That rate fell as low as 3,567,985 tons during Depression, was up again to 44,822,023 in 1936. Especially important for this reason are the huge reserves of low-grade ore in the Mesabi Range which holds 1,200,000,000 tons of ore all told compared to 65,000,000 in the Menominee...
Harvard came out after the half with the wind at their backs and immediately showed better team-work and more drive. The Boston Club was forced back into its own territory, and A1 Teichmeier picked up a loose ball and fell on it over the line. Bill Watt converted from a difficult angle to tie the score...