Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deck that morning I heard the engine roar of one of the biplanes she carried, and as I stepped over the hatch coaming I saw the plane just beginning to lift from the thrust of the catapult. Almost immediately, from an elevation of, perhaps, two hundred feet, she fell into the bay. Thus ended man's first brief flight in Samoa...
...woods. Again he screamed, and when it was withdrawn this time he was ready to confess. He was with Townes, he sobbed, when Townes poked a shotgun through the grocery window, fired into the grocer's back. When his confession was delivered in sufficient detail, the lynchers fell back and a volley of bullets crashed into Bootjack McDaniels, 1937's lynching victim...
...Gerrity-Scofield-Charley attempt was not the first in Crimson long distance running annals. Last year Robert S. Playfair '36, captain of the Cross Country team, met disaster in a 20-mile jaunt. After performing well for over half the race, the exhausted harrier unfortunately fell amok and deviated from the course, ended by fetching up against a tree...
...Denmark's giant-tall King Christian X, on one of his daily horseback jaunts through Copenhagen's busiest streets, was not surprised when a passing truck driver waved him a cheery salute. Back waved King Christian, and at that moment his horse, young and excitable, suddenly reared, fell down. Beneath the horse one of the King's legs was pinioned and anxious bystanders rushed to help. With a tight-lipped grin King Christian remounted, rode back to Amalienborg Castle as though nothing had happened. That evening, none the worse for his fall, he entertained at dinner...
Hutter, local cynosure, boosted his national prestige by capturing the American title in the 220 and taking a second in the 100-yard event. His time in the former event, 2:11.2 minutes, fell below his Harvard best, while in the latter only a yard separated him from the winner, United States ace Peter Fick, who came from behind to hang on to his title...